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SUBMITTER: Haubenberger D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2798904 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Haubenberger Dietrich D Hotzy Christoph C Pirker Walter W Katzenschlager Regina R Brücke Thomas T Zimprich Fritz F Auff Eduard E Zimprich Alexander A
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 20091201 16
A clinical overlap between Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET) has prompted a discussion whether these conditions share common genetic susceptibility factors. Recently, the first genome-wide association study in ET revealed a significant association with a variant in the LINGO1 gene. LINGO1 has also been demonstrated to play a role in the survival of dopaminergic neurons in an animal model of PD, and therefore constitutes a potential candidate gene for PD. In this study, SNPs rs96 ...[more]