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Identification of Spanish familial Parkinson's disease and screening for the Ala53Thr mutation of the alpha-synuclein gene in early onset patients.
Neuroscience letters - 10 Oct 1997
Muñoz E, Oliva R, Obach V, Martí M J, Pastor P, Ballesta F, Tolosa E
Abstract excerpt
We initiated the present work in order to determine if the Ala53Thr mutation of the alpha-synuclein gene previously described by Polymeropoulos et al. [Science, 276 (1997) 2045-2047] could be detected in Spanish early onset Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Thirty-four PD patients were evaluated. Of these, 13 were considered early onset patients (six familial and seven sporadic) and were included in the genetic...
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