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Parkinson's disease with Lewy bodies associated with a heterozygous PARKIN dosage mutation.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Apr 2014
Sharp Madeleine E, Marder Karen S, Côté Lucien, Clark Lorraine N, Nichols William C, Vonsattel Jean-Paul, Alcalay Roy N
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BACKGROUND: PARKIN-related disease remains incompletely understood. First, the pathogenicity of heterozygous PARKIN mutations is unclear, although some evidence supports causality. Second, unlike sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD), Lewy bodies are present only in a minority of cases. Only one other heterozygote PARKIN carrier with autopsy findings has been described. Our case adds to the broadening pathological...
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