The letter by Papapetropoulos and colleagues presents an additional study correlating ␣-synuclein expression levels and sporadic PD. Previously we and others published studies of mRNA levels of SNCA in PD brains that have been performed using different methods. Some are in agreement with our results
The ups and downs of α-synuclein mRNA expression
✍ Scribed by Justus C. Dächsel; Sarah J. Lincoln; John Gonzalez; Owen A. Ross; Dennis W. Dickson; Matthew J. Farrer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 83 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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