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Cervical dystonia and genetic common variation in the dopamine pathway.
Parkinsonism & related disorders - 1 Mar 2013
Groen Justus L, Simón-Sánchez Javier, Ritz Katja, Bochdanovits Zoltán, Fang Yue, van Hilten Jacobus J, Aramideh Majid, van de Warrenburg Bart P, Boon Agnita J W, Baas Frank, Heutink Peter, Tijssen Marina A J
Abstract excerpt
Cervical dystonia, a late onset focal dystonia, has a complex genetic background. Multiple lines of evidence point to a role for aberrant dopamine levels in dystonia. We assessed whether common variation within genes that regulate brain dopamine levels and in key genes of the dopamine metabolic p...
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