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Caffeine interaction with glutamate receptor gene GRIN2A: Parkinson's disease in Swedish population.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Yamada-Fowler Naomi, Fredrikson Mats, Söderkvist Peter
Abstract excerpt
A complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors is thought to be involved in the etiology of Parkinson's disease (PD). A recent genome-wide association and interaction study (GWAIS) identified GRIN2A, which encodes an NMDA-glutamate-receptor subunit involved in brain's excitatory neurotransmission, as a PD genetic modifier in inverse association with caffeine intake. Here in, we attempted to...
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