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Susceptibility loci for pigmentation and melanoma in relation to Parkinson's disease.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Jun 2014
Dong Jing, Gao Jianjun, Nalls Michael, Gao Xiang, Huang Xuemei, Han Jiali, Singleton Andrew B, Chen Honglei
Abstract excerpt
Growing evidence suggests that Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have a lower risk for most types of cancer except for melanoma, which has a modest positive association with PD. Pigmentation genes have been hypothesized to contribute to this association. We therefore examined whether genetic susceptibility loci for pigmentation or melanoma was associated with PD risk in 2 large independent datasets. In the...
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