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Polymorphisms of caffeine metabolism and estrogen receptor genes and risk of Parkinson's disease in men and women.
Parkinsonism & related disorders - 1 Jul 2010
Palacios N, Weisskopf M, Simon K, Gao X, Schwarzschild M, Ascherio A
Abstract excerpt
Caffeine intake has been associated with a decreased risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) in men but the effect in women is less clear, and appears to be modified by use of post-menopausal estrogens. In a nested case-control study within the Nurses Health Study (NHS) and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS), we examined associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of caffeine metabolizing...
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