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The 4p16.3 Parkinson Disease Risk Locus Is Associated with GAK Expression and Genes Involved with the Synaptic Vesicle Membrane.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Nagle Michael W, Latourelle Jeanne C, Labadorf Adam, Dumitriu Alexandra, Hadzi Tiffany C, Beach Thomas G, Myers Richard H
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified the GAK/DGKQ/IDUA region on 4p16.3 among the top three risk loci for Parkinson's disease (PD), but the specific gene and risk mechanism are unclear. Here, we report transcripts containing the 3' clathrin-binding domain of GAK identified by RNA deep-sequencing in post-mortem human brain tissue as having increased expression in PD. Furthermore, carriers of...
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