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Smoking, genes encoding dopamine pathway and risk for Parkinson's disease.
Neuroscience letters - 20 Sept 2010
Gu Zhuqin, Feng Xiuli, Dong Xiumin, Chan Piu
Abstract excerpt
Smoking has been reported to be inversely associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) in many studies, but a recent study in China found that smoking increased the risk of PD. Variants in genes associated with dopamine metabolism found to increase the risk for PD have also been associated with smoking behavior. To investigate the association between smoking and PD in a Chinese population and determine whether the...
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