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SUBMITTER: Zabetian CP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1592578 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zabetian Cyrus P CP Hutter Carolyn M CM Yearout Dora D Lopez Alexis N AN Factor Stewart A SA Griffith Alida A Leis Berta C BC Bird Thomas D TD Nutt John G JG Higgins Donald S DS Roberts John W JW Kay Denise M DM Edwards Karen L KL Samii Ali A Payami Haydeh H
American journal of human genetics 20060817 4
The leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) G2019S mutation is the most common genetic determinant of Parkinson disease (PD) identified to date. It accounts for 1%-7% of PD in patients of European origin and 20%-40% in Ashkenazi Jews and North African Arabs with PD. Previous studies concluded that patients from these populations all shared a common Middle Eastern founder who lived in the 13th century. We tested this hypothesis by genotyping 25 microsatellite and single-nucleotide-polymorphism marke ...[more]