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Association between apolipoprotein E genotypes and Parkinson's disease.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia - 1 Oct 2011
Pulkes T, Papsing C, Mahasirimongkol S, Busabaratana M, Kulkantrakorn K, Tiamkao S
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies on the association between apolipoprotein E (APOE) alleles and Parkinson's disease (PD) have shown contradictory results. A recent study showed that APOE is involved in a molecular pathway of α-synuclein-induced neurodegeneration. We therefore conducted the first Thai study on APOE genotypes in patients with PD. We analysed the frequencies of APOE genotypes in our case-control study of 155...
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