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SUBMITTER: Valente AX
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3277088 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Valente André X C N AX Shin Joo H JH Sarkar Abhijit A Gao Yuan Y
Scientific reports 20120210
An association between a rare, coding, non-synonymous SNP variant in the gene DZIP1 and Parkinson's disease was found, based on an analysis of the existing NGRC genome-wide association study dataset. The statistical analysis utilized the hypothesis-rich, targeted search unbiased assessment approach, rather than the hypothesis-free, genome-wide agnostic search paradigm. The association of DZIP1 with Parkinson's disease is discussed in the context of a Parkinson's disease stem-cell ageing theory. ...[more]