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The Use of Primary Human Fibroblasts for Monitoring Mitochondrial Phenotypes in the Field of Parkinson's Disease
Published on: October 3, 2012
PARK11 is not linked with Parkinson's disease in European families
Jürgen Prestel1, Manu Sharma, Petra Leitner
1Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Tuebingen, Hoppe-Seyler Str. 3, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
Abstract:
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a genetically heterogeneous disease. Recently, significant linkage has been reported to a 39.5 cM region on the long arm of chromosome 2 (2q36-37; PARK11) in North American Parkinson families under an autosomal dominant model of inheritance. We have performed a replication study to confirm linkage to this region in a European population. Linkage analysis in 153 individuals from 45 European families with a strong family history of PD did not show any significant LOD score in this region. Therefore, PARK11 does not seem to play a major role for familial PD in the European population.
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