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Genetic analysis of the fused in sarcoma gene in Chinese Han patients with Parkinson's disease.
Parkinsonism & related disorders - 1 Jan 2014
Gao Kai, Zheng Wen, Deng Xiong, Xiong Wei, Song Zhi, Yang Yan, Deng Hao
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Exome sequencing in a large essential tremor (ET) family identified a novel nonsense mutation (p.Q290X) in the fused in sarcoma gene (FUS) as the cause of this family. Because of the clinical overlap between ET and Parkinson's disease (PD), the role of FUS in an independent cohort of PD patients from China mainland was evaluated. METHODS: The entire coding region of FUS in 508 Chinese Han...
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