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Genetic analysis of PITX3 variants in patients with essential tremor.
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Mar 2017
Chen H, Song Z, Yuan L, Xiong W, Yang Z, Gong L, Deng H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A clinical overlap between essential tremor (ET) and Parkinson's disease (PD) has prompted investigation whether these disorders share common genetic factors. The paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 3 gene (PITX3) has been shown to play an important role for the differentiation and survival of midbrain dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta. The preferential degeneration...
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