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LINGO1 variants in the French-Canadian population.
PloS one - 11 Jan 2011
Bourassa Cynthia V, Rivière Jean-Baptiste, Dion Patrick A, Bernard Geneviève, Diab Sabrina, Panisset Michel, Chouinard Sylvain, Dupré Nicolas, Fournier Hélène, Raelson John, Belouchi Majid, Rouleau Guy A
Abstract excerpt
Essential tremor (ET) is a complex genetic disorder for which no causative gene has been found. Recently, a genome-wide association study reported that two variants in the LINGO1 locus were associated to this disease. The aim of the present study was to test if this specific association could be replicated using a French-Canadian cohort of 259 ET patients and 479 ethnically matched controls. Our genotyping...
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