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Gene expression profiles in Parkinson disease prefrontal cortex implicate FOXO1 and genes under its transcriptional regulation.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jun 2012
Dumitriu Alexandra, Latourelle Jeanne C, Hadzi Tiffany C, Pankratz Nathan, Garza Dan, Miller John P, Vance Jeffery M, Foroud Tatiana, Beach Thomas G, Myers Richard H
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder with largely unknown genetic mechanisms. While the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in PD mainly takes place in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SN) region, other brain areas, including the prefrontal cortex, develop Lewy bodie...
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