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Genome-wide association study of Parkinson's disease in East Asians.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Jan 2017
Foo Jia Nee, Tan Louis C, Irwan Ishak D, Au Wing-Lok, Low Hui Qi, Prakash Kumar-M, Ahmad-Annuar Azlina, Bei Jinxin, Chan Anne Yy, Chen Chiung Mei, Chen Yi-Chun, Chung Sun Ju, Deng Hao, Lim Shen-Yang, Mok Vincent, Pang Hao, Pei Zhong, Peng Rong, Shang Hui-Fang, Song Kyuyoung, Tan Ai Huey, Wu Yih-Ru, Aung Tin, Cheng Ching-Yu, Chew Fook Tim, Chew Soo-Hong, Chong Siow-Ann, Ebstein Richard P, Lee Jimmy, Saw Seang-Mei, Seow Adeline, Subramaniam Mythily, Tai E-Shyong, Vithana Eranga N, Wong Tien-Yin, Heng Khai Koon, Meah Wee-Yang, Khor Chiea Chuen, Liu Hong, Zhang Furen, Liu Jianjun, Tan Eng-King
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on Parkinson's disease (PD) have mostly been done in Europeans and Japanese. No study has been done in Han Chinese, which make up nearly a fifth of the world population. We conducted the first Han Chinese GWAS analysing a total of 22,729 subjects (5,125 PD cases and 17,604 controls) from Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Korea, mainland China and Taiwan. We performed...
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