Article
Incidence of mutations in the PARK2, PINK1, PARK7 genes in Polish early-onset Parkinson disease patients.
Neurologia i neurochirurgia polska - 1 Jan 2000
Koziorowski D, Hoffman-Zacharska D, Sławek J, Jamrozik Z, Janik P, Potulska-Chromik A, Roszmann A, Tataj R, Bal J, Friedman A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Parkinson disease (PD) is a complex disease, comprising genetic and environmental factors. Despite the vast majority of sporadic cases, three genes, i.e. PARK2, PINK1 and PARK7 (DJ-1), have been identified as responsible for the autosomal recessive form of early-onset Parkinson disease (EO-PD). Identified changes of these genes are homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations. The...
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