Mitochondrial targeting sequence variants of the CHCHD2 gene are a risk for Lewy body disorders

Kotaro Ogaki1, Shunsuke Koga1, Michael G Heckman1

  • 1From the Department of Neuroscience (K.O., S.K., F.C.F., M.A., C.L., O.L.-B., E.L.M.-L., A.I.S.-O., R.L.W., W.S., D.W.D., O.A.R.), the Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics (M.G.H.), and the Department of Neurology (A.J.S., R.J.U., N.R.G.-R., Z.K.W.), Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; the Department of Neurology (K.O., M.A., K.N., M.F., N.H.), Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; the Dublin Neurological Institute at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (A.M., T.L.), Conway, and Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Ireland; the Department of Neurology (J.S., G.O., M.R.), Medical University of Silesia, Katowice; the Department of Neurology (A.K.-W.), Jagiellonian University, Krakow; the Department of Neurodegenerative Disorders (M.B.), Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; the Department of Neurology (K.C.), Central Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warsaw, Poland; the Departments of Clinical Sciences and Neurology (A.P.), Lund University; the Department of Neurology (A.P.), Skåne University Hospital, Sweden; the Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Graduate School of Medicine (M.F., N.H.), Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan; the Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (J.E.P.) and Neurology (R.C.P., B.F.B.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; the School of Medicine and Medical Science (O.A.R.), University College Dublin, Ireland; and Mayo Graduate School (O.A.R.), Neurobiology of Disease, Jacksonville, FL.

Neurology
|November 13, 2015
PubMed
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