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Jens Carsten Möller1, Candan Depboylu, Heike Kölsch
1Department of Neurology, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany.
Abstract:
An increasing number of studies have shown that an inflammatory process is part of Parkinson's disease (PD) brain pathology. Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a multifunctional cytokine and is considered to contribute to several inflammatory diseases. Recently, we detected an associated risk in a subgroup of PD patients with a disease onset < 50 years and a C to T transition in the IL-1alpha promoter (-889). One-hundred-seventy-six German PD patients (42.1 +/- 6.4 years; 42.4% male) and 170 unrelated age-matched control individuals (40.4 +/- 8.7 years; 57.6% male) were investigated for the presence of the IL-1alpha (-889C/T) polymorphism. No significant difference in the allelic distribution of the analyzed IL-1alpha polymorphism has been found between PD and controls. We conclude that the C/T polymorphism in the IL-1alpha promoter region at -889 does not increase the risk to develop PD.
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