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SUBMITTER: Georgiou A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6812688 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Georgiou Andrea A Demetriou Christiana A CA Christou Yiolanda P YP Heraclides Alexandros A Leonidou Eleni E Loukaides Panayiotis P Yiasoumi Elena E Pantziaris Marios M Kleopa Kleopas A KA Papacostas Savvas S SS Loizidou Maria A MA Hadjisavvas Andreas A Zamba-Papanicolaou Eleni E
Frontiers in neurology 20191017
<b>Introduction:</b> Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting a substantial proportion of the elderly Cypriot population. The objective of this study was to evaluate PD risk variants that have been identified previously in Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and to find environmental factors that are predictors for PD onset in the Cypriot population. <b>Methods:</b> A case-control study was conducted with a total of 235 PD patients and 464 healthy controls of Greek-C ...[more]