Genetics of Parkinson's disease.

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A genetic contribution to the etiology of Lewy body Parkinson's disease (PD) is now well established, based on the demonstration of a familial aggregation of the disease by case-control and twin studies and on the description of large multigenerational families in whom clinically and pathologically typical PD is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. In the largest of these families, a gene locus has been...

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