An approach to finding brain-situated mutations in sporadic Parkinson's disease

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 82-85

  Pamphlett, Roger ^a   Morahan, Julia M ^a   Luquin, Natasha ^a   Yu, Bing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Copy number variant; Genome wide microarray; Parkinson's disease; Somatic mutation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA MICROARRAY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPORADIC PARKINSON DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 84655161522     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2011.08.024     Document Type: Article

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