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Familial aggregation of Parkinson's disease in a multiethnic community-based case-control study.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 15 Nov 2010
Shino Michael Y, McGuire Valerie, Van Den Eeden Stephen K, Tanner Caroline M, Popat Rita, Leimpeter Amethyst, Bernstein Allan L, Nelson Lorene M
Abstract excerpt
To assess the familial aggregation of Parkinson's disease (PD), we compared the cumulative incidence of PD among first-degree relatives of PD cases and controls. We identified newly diagnosed patients with PD (n = 573) during 1994 to 1995 within Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern California and recruited 496 cases (87%) for the case-control study. Of 720 eligible controls matched by birth year and...
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