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SUBMITTER: Hasegawa T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5767785 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in neuroscience 20180110
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common devastating neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer's disease. The precise molecular and cellular basis underlying PD still remains uncertain; however, accumulating evidence suggests that neuronal cell death is caused by a combination of environmental and genetic factors. Over the previous two decades, more than 20 genes have been identified as the cause of and/or risk for PD. Because sporadic and familial forms of PD have many similarities i ...[more]