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RIT2 variant is not associated with Parkinson's disease in a Taiwanese population.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Sept 2013
Lin Chin-Hsien, Chen Meng-Ling, Yu Chin-Yi, Wu Ruey-Meei
Abstract excerpt
Recent genome-wide association studies of Parkinson's disease (PD) have identified the rs12456492 variant of the novel susceptibility loci, RIT2, as being associated with disease risk in a large white population. Studies among Asians are scarce. We genotyped RIT2 rs12456492 variant in a total of 1000 participants, comprising 500 patients with PD and 500 control subjects in a Taiwanese population. The frequency of...
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