Lack of association of the UCHL-1 gene with Parkinson's disease in a greek cohort: A haplotype-tagging approach

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1955-1957

  Xiromerisiou, Georgia ^a,b   Kyratzi, Elli ^c   Dardiotis, Efthimios ^a,b   Bozi, Maria ^d,e   Tsimourtou, Vana ^a   Stamboulis, Eleftherios ^e   Ralli, Styliani ^a   Vassilatis, Demetrios ^c   Gourbali, Vanessa ^a   Kountra, Persa Maria ^a   Fountas, Kostas ^b   Papadimitriou, Alexandros ^a   Stefanis, Leonidas ^c,e   Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^d General Hospital of Syros   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; UBIQUITIN CARBOXY TERMINAL HYDROLASE L1; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GREECE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE;

EID: 80052258993     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23694     Document Type: Letter

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