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NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 300, Issue 2, Pages 125-127Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)01557-9
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alpha synuclein/NACP promoter polymorphism; risk factor; Parkinson's disease; Japanese population
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Dinucleotide repeat polymorphism has been observed in the promoter of the alpha -synuclein (alpha -SYN)/NAC precursor protein (NACP) gene. alpha -SYN/NACP allele 3 (described by Xia et al. (Ann. Neurol., 40 (1996) 207), equivalent to allele 1 described by Krijger et a I. (Ann. Neurol. 45 (1999) 611) is reported to be significantly more frequent among patients with sporadic Parkinson's disease (sPD) than controls. In this study, we genotyped the same alpha -SYN/NACP polymorphism in Japanese sPD patients and healthy controls, but found that any allele showed no significant difference between the two groups. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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