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SUBMITTER: Nuytemans K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4022044 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 20140226 6
<h4>Background</h4>We have reported that intermediate repeat lengths of the C9ORF72 repeat are a risk factor for Parkinson's disease (PD) in a clinically diagnosed data set. Because 10% to 25% of clinically diagnosed PD have different diagnoses upon autopsy, we hypothesized that this may reflect phenotypic heterogeneity or concomitant pathology of other neurodegenerative disorders.<h4>Methods</h4>We screened 488 autopsy-confirmed PD cases for expansion haplotype tag rs3849942T. In 196 identified ...[more]