Article
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...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Parkinson Disease
- Pedigree
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Spain
- Synucleins
