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Novel and functional ATG12 gene variants in sporadic Parkinson's disease.
Neuroscience letters - 16 Mar 2017
Li Yuequn, Huang Jian, Pang Shuchao, Wang Haihua, Zhang Aimei, Hawley Robert G, Yan Bo
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common and progressive neurodegenerative disease, including familial and sporadic cases. To date, genetic causes for sporadic PD, majority of PD cases, remain largely unknown. Accumulating evidence indicates that dysfunctional autophagy, a highly conserved cellular process, is involved in the PD pathogenesis. We speculated that changed expression levels of autophagy-related genes...
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