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New evidence for, and challenges in, linking small CGG repeat expansion FMR1 alleles with Parkinson's disease.
Clinical genetics - 1 Oct 2013
Loesch D Z, Tassone F, Lo J, Slater H R, Hills L V, Bui M Q, Silburn P A, Mellick G D
Abstract excerpt
We recently reported a significant increase in the frequency of carriers of grey zone (GZ) alleles of FMR1 gene in Australian males with Parkinson's disease (PD) from Victoria and Tasmania. Here, we report data comparing an independent sample of 817 PD patients from Queensland to 1078 consecutive Australian male newborns from Victoria. We confirmed the earlier finding by observing a significant excess of GZ...
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