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Evaluation of Parkinson disease risk variants as expression-QTLs.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Latourelle Jeanne C, Dumitriu Alexandra, Hadzi Tiffany C, Beach Thomas G, Myers Richard H
Abstract excerpt
The recent Parkinson Disease GWAS Consortium meta-analysis and replication study reports association at several previously confirmed risk loci SNCA, MAPT, GAK/DGKQ, and HLA and identified a novel risk locus at RIT2. To further explore functional consequences of these associations, we investigated modification of gene expression in prefrontal cortex brain samples of pathologically confirmed PD cases (N = 26) and...
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