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Genetic variability at the PARK16 locus.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Dec 2010
Tucci Arianna, Nalls Mike A, Houlden Henry, Revesz Tamas, Singleton Andrew B, Wood Nicholas W, Hardy John, Paisán-Ruiz Coro
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease which is clinically heterogeneous and pathologically consists of loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and intracytoplasmic neuronal inclusions containing alpha-synuclein aggregations known as Lewy bodies. Although the majority of PD is idiopathic, pathogenic mutations in several mendelian genes have been successfully identified...
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