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No clear support for a role for vitamin D in Parkinson's disease: A Mendelian randomization study.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Aug 2017
Larsson Susanna C, Singleton Andrew B, Nalls Mike A, Richards J Brent
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BACKGROUND: Observational studies have found that relative to healthy controls, patients with Parkinson's disease have lower circulating concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, a clinical biomarker of vitamin D status. However, the causality of this association is uncertain. We undertook a Mendelian randomization study to investigate whether genetically decreased 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations are associated...
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