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The age at motor symptoms onset in LRRK2-associated Parkinson's disease is affected by a variation in the MAPT locus: a possible interaction.
Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN - 1 Mar 2012
Gan-Or Ziv, Bar-Shira Anat, Mirelman Anat, Gurevich Tanya, Giladi Nir, Orr-Urtreger Avi
Abstract excerpt
The current paradigm on Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis and course suggests the involvement of multiple genes and the interaction between them. Recently, it was reported that a variation (rs2435207) in the MAPT gene region influenced the age of motor symptoms onset (AO) in 44 PD patients from 19 families, carriers of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) mutations, all of European and North American origin....
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