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Phenotype of the 202 adenine deletion in the parkin gene: 40 years of follow-up.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Mar 2011
Hassin-Baer Sharon, Hattori Nobutaka, Cohen Oren S, Massarwa Magdalena, Israeli-Korn Simon D, Inzelberg Rivka
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BACKGROUND: We describe the four decades follow-up of 14 parkin patients belonging to two large eight-generation-long in-bred Muslim-Arab kindreds. RESULTS: All patients had a single base-pair of adenine deletion at nucleotide 202 of exon 2 (202A) of the parkin gene (all homozygous, one heterozygous). Parkinson's disease onset age was 17-68 years. Special features were intractable axial symptoms (low back pain,...
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