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Head injury, potential interaction with genes, and risk for Parkinson's disease.
Parkinsonism & related disorders - 1 Mar 2015
Gao Jianjun, Liu Rui, Zhao Edward, Huang Xuemei, Nalls Michael A, Singleton Andrew B, Chen Honglei
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INTRODUCTION: To evaluate the association between head injury and Parkinson's disease (PD), focusing on the timing of head injury, and to explore potential interactions between head injury and genetic factors in PD etiology. METHODS: The analysis included 507 PD cases and 1330 controls, all non-Hispanic Whites. Head injury was retrospectively asked, and genotyping was performed mainly as part of a previous GWAS....
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