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A specific amino acid motif of HLA-DRB1 mediates risk and interacts with smoking history in Parkinson’s disease
25 Mar 2019
Abstract excerpt
Significance Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disease with both familial and sporadic forms and a clear genetic component. In addition, underlying immunoregulatory dysfunction and inflammatory processes have been implicated in PD pathogenesis. In this study, deep sequencing of HLA genes, which encode highly variable cell surface immune receptors, reveals specific variants...
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