Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 15, Issue 11, Pages 1163-1168Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201901
Keywords
Parkinson's disease; MAPT haplotypes; ethnicity
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An association of the H1 haplotype and subhaplotypes in the microtubule-associated protein Tau (MAPT) gene with Parkinson's disease (PD) has been reported. To further evaluate their role in PD, we genotyped a sample set of 765 cases and controls consisting of two large European subgroups of German (n 418) and Serbian (n = 347) origin for the MAPT haplotypes H1 and H2. The H1/H1 carriers were tested for three additional MAPT polymorphisms. In the Serbian sample, there was significant evidence (P = 0.0108) of an association of the H1/H1 genotype and PD. Surprisingly, in the German sample, we did not find significant differences in genotype or haplotype frequencies between patients and controls. These results suggest that the role of H1 haplotypes in the etiology of PD may be ethnically dependent.
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