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Evaluating intra-genetic variants of DJ-1 among Parkinson's disease patients of eastern India.
Neurological research - 1 May 2011
Sanyal Jaya, Sarkar Biswanath, Banerjee Tapas Kumar, Mukherjee Subhash Chandra, Ray Bidhan Chandra, Raghavendra Rao V
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OBJECTIVES: Mutations in the DJ-1 gene have been described in autosomal recessive Parkinson's disease (PD) of European ancestry, Ashkenazi Jews, and Afro-Caribbean patients. Up to date, there is a lack of information about the prevalence of DJ-1 mutations among Indian PD patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, we examined for DJ-1 mutations in Eastern Indian PD patients. Exons (no. 2-7) and intron...
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