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Paraoxonase 1, agricultural organophosphate exposure, and Parkinson disease.
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Jan 2010
Manthripragada Angelika D, Costello Sadie, Cockburn Myles G, Bronstein Jeff M, Ritz Beate
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BACKGROUND: Human, animal and cell models support a role for pesticides in the etiology of Parkinson disease. Susceptibility to pesticides may be modified by genetic variants of xenobiotic enzymes, such as paraoxonase, that play a role in metabolizing some organophosphates. METHODS: We examined a...
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