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Mutation scanning of the COQ2 gene in ethnic Chinese patients with multiple-system atrophy.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Feb 2015
Chen Yong Ping, Zhao Bi, Cao Bei, Song Wei, Guo XiaoYan, Wei Qian-Qian, Yang Yuan, Yuan Li Xing, Shang Hui-Fang
Abstract excerpt
Multiple-system atrophy (MSA) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder with unknown etiology. It is widely considered to be a nongenetic disorder, but accumulating evidence suggests that several genes are linked to MSA. Recently, functionally impaired variants in the coenzyme Q2 4-hydroxybenzoate polyprenyltransferase (COQ2) gene have been reported to increase the risk of MSA in familial and sporadic Japanese...
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