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An exploratory study on CLU, CR1 and PICALM and Parkinson disease.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Gao Jianjun, Huang Xuemei, Park Yikyung, Hollenbeck Albert, Chen Honglei
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recent GWAS and subsequent confirmation studies reported several single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at the CLU, CR1 and PICALM loci in association with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). Parkinson disease (PD) shares several clinical and pathologic characteristics with AD; we therefore explored whether these SNPs were also associated with PD risk. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: 791 non-Hispanic...
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