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Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism and its association with Parkinson's disease in Chinese Han population.
Neuroscience letters - 6 Sept 2012
Han Xun, Xue Li, Li Yongsheng, Chen Biao, Xie Anmu
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin D plays an important role in neurodegenerative disorders as a crucial neuro-immunomodulator, and accumulating data have provided evidence for that vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene is a candidate gene for susceptibility to Parkinson's disease (PD). In this study, we performed a case-control study to demonstrate whether the risk for the development of onset of sporadic PD might be influenced by VDR gene...
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