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Genetic analysis of the CHCHD2 gene in Chinese patients with familial essential tremor.
Neuroscience letters - 10 Nov 2016
Wu Hongwei, Lu Xingjiao, Cen Zhidong, Xie Fei, Zheng Xiaosheng, Chen You, Luo Wei
Abstract excerpt
Recently, Funayama et al. identified CHCHD2 as a novel causative gene of Parkinson disease (PD). However, the relationship between CHCHD2 and essential tremor (ET) patients was still unknown. Genetic analysis of CHCHD2 gene was conducted in 60 probands of ET families with autosomal dominant inheritance and 90 healthy controls in Chinese population. No pathogenic CHCHD2 mutation was found in ET patients. However,...
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