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Color Discrimination in Patients with Gaucher Disease and Parkinson Disease.
Journal of Parkinson's disease - 1 Jan 2015
Simon-Tov Shlomi, Dinur Tama, Giladi Nir, Bar-Shira Anat, Zelis Mayaan, Zimran Ari, Elstein Deborah
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Poor color discrimination among patients with Parkinson disease (PD) has long been recognized. It has been shown that carrying one or two mutations in the β-glucocerebrosidase gene (GBA) for the autosomal disease Gaucher disease (GD), as based initially on clinical evidence, is a genetic risk factor for early-onset PD. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess color discrimination in patients...
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