Article
SNCA polymorphisms, smoking, and sporadic Parkinson's disease in Japanese.
Parkinsonism & related disorders - 1 Jun 2012
Miyake Yoshihiro, Tanaka Keiko, Fukushima Wakaba, Kiyohara Chikako, Sasaki Satoshi, Tsuboi Yoshio, Yamada Tatsuo, Oeda Tomoko, Shimada Hiroyuki, Kawamura Nobutoshi, Sakae Nobutaka, Fukuyama Hidenao, Hirota Yoshio, Nagai Masaki
Abstract excerpt
Several case-control studies and genome-wide association studies have examined the relationships between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the SNCA gene and Parkinson's disease (PD), and have provided inconsistent results. We investigated the relationships between SNPs rs356229, rs356219, rs356220, rs7684318, and rs2736990 and the risk of sporadic PD in Japan using data from a multicenter hospital-based...