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Editor's Highlight: Base Excision Repair Variants and Pesticide Exposure Increase Parkinson's Disease Risk.
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology - 1 Jul 2017
Sanders Laurie H, Paul Kimberly C, Howlett Evan H, Lawal Hakeem, Boppana Sridhar, Bronstein Jeff M, Ritz Beate, Greenamyre J Timothy
Abstract excerpt
Exposure to certain pesticides induces oxidative stress and increases Parkinson's disease (PD) risk. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage is found in dopaminergic neurons in idiopathic PD and following pesticide exposure in experimental models thereof. Base excision repair (BER) is the major pathway responsible for repairing oxidative DNA damage in cells. Whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in BER genes...
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