Autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease.

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Multiple factors have been hypothesized over the years to be contributory and or causative for Parkinson's disease (PD). Hereditary factors, although originally discounted, have recently emerged in the focus of PD research. The study of a large Italian family with PD using a genome scan approach led to the mapping of a PD susceptibility gene to the 4q21-q23 genomic region, where the gene for alpha-synuclein was...

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