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PROVIDER: EGAS00001000973 | EGA |
REPOSITORIES: EGA
Spataro Nino N Calafell Francesc F Cervera-Carles Laura L Casals Ferran F Pagonabarraga Javier J Pascual-Sedano Berta B Campolongo Antònia A Kulisevsky Jaime J Lleó Alberto A Navarro Arcadi A Clarimón Jordi J Bosch Elena E
Human molecular genetics 20141211 7
Parkinson's disease (PD) can be divided into familial (Mendelian) and sporadic forms. A number of causal genes have been discovered for the Mendelian form, which constitutes 10-20% of the total cases. Genome-wide association studies have successfully uncovered a number of susceptibility loci for sporadic cases but those only explain a small fraction (6-7%) of PD heritability. It has been observed that some genes that confer susceptibility to PD through common risk variants also contain rare caus ...[more]