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Evidence for more than one Parkinson's disease-associated variant within the HLA region.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Hill-Burns Erin M, Factor Stewart A, Zabetian Cyrus P, Thomson Glenys, Payami Haydeh
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) was recently found to be associated with HLA in a genome-wide association study (GWAS). Follow-up GWAS's replicated the PD-HLA association but their top hits differ. Do the different hits tag the same locus or is there more than one PD-associated variant within HLA? We show that the top GWAS hits are not correlated with each other (0.00≤r(2)≤0.15). Using our GWAS (2000 cases, 1986...
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