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The significance of GBA for Parkinson's disease.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jul 2014
Brockmann Kathrin, Berg Daniela
Abstract excerpt
From the first descriptions of Parkinson's disease (PD) and Gaucher's disease (GD) in the nineteenth century, it took more than 100 years to discover the link between the GBA gene and Parkinsonism. The observation that mutations in the GBA gene represent the most common genetic risk factor for PD so far only came into focus because of astute clinical observation of Gaucher patients and their families. In this...
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