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SLC1A2 variant associated with essential tremor but not Parkinson disease in Chinese subjects.
Neurology - 23 Apr 2013
Tan Eng-King, Foo Jia-Nee, Tan Louis, Au Wing-Lok, Prakash Kumar M, Ng Ebonne, Ikram M Kamran, Wong Tien-Yin, Liu Jian-Jun, Zhao Yi
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Essential tremor (ET) is characterized by postural and action tremor.(1-3) A genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified a LINGO1 gene variant to be associated with ET.(4) Subsequent GWAS further identified an intronic variant (rs3794087) of the main glial glutamate transporter (SLC1A2) gene...
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