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Hussein Daoud1, Anne Noreau, Daniel Rochefort
1Centre of Excellence in Neuroscience of Université de Montréal (CENUM), CHUM Research Center and the Department of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Abstract:
Large repeat expansions in the C9orf72 gene were recently reported to be a major cause of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Given some of the clinical and pathologic overlap between these 2 diseases and Parkinson's disease, we sought to evaluate the presence of these expansions in a cohort of French-Canadian patients with Parkinson's disease. No pathologic expansion was found in our cohort of patients suggesting that C9orf72 repeat expansions do not play a major role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease.
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