Clinical implications of gene discovery
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Christian Wider; Tatiana Foroud; Zbigniew K. Wszolek
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Over the past decade, major progress has been achieved in the identification of genes associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) and parkinsonism. Five genes have now been shown conclusively to play a role in PD susceptibility. Mutations in three of these genes, __PRKN__, __PINK1,__ and _