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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-12-6
pubmed:abstractText
The transcription factors PITX3 and Engrailed 1 (EN1), among others, have been shown to play a crucial role in the maturation and survival of midbrain dopaminergic neurons. The degeneration of those neurons is the pathological hallmark in Parkinson's disease (PD). In a hypothesis-driven candidate gene approach, it has been recently shown that polymorphisms in the genes coding for PITX3 and EN1 are associated with sporadic PD. In a study on 365 patients with PD and 418 controls, we genotyped nine single nucleotide polymorphisms spanning the entire genomic region of PITX3 and EN1. Furthermore, we analyzed whether the genotype of these SNPs associate with the age of onset in PD. We found a strong association between the PITX3 promoter rs3758549 polymorphism and PD (p=0.0001), as well as an association between EN1 rs1438852 and PD (p=0.046). In particular, our highly significant findings regarding the association of rs3758549 reproduce the results of the initial report on transcription factor gene variants, providing further evidence for PITX3 and EN1 polymorphisms as potential genetic risk factors for sporadic PD.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1558-1497
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
302-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Association of transcription factor polymorphisms PITX3 and EN1 with Parkinson's disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. dietrich.haubenberger@meduniwien.ac.at
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article