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Occurrence of PARK2 mutations in a never-smoker population with Parkinson's disease in North India.
Neuroepidemiology - 1 Aug 2010
Prabhakar Sudesh, Vinish Monika, Das C P, Anand Akshay
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BACKGROUND: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex neurological disorder without any well-documented genotype-demography associations among sporadic variants. We recently reported PARK2 mutations to be constituting 40% of PD in this region and thus analysed how demographic variables associate with PARK2 mutations in 70 of these patients. METHODS: PD samples were screened by PCR single-strand conformation...
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