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**GIGYF2** has no major role in Parkinson genetic etiology in a Belgian population
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Abstract
Missense mutations were identified in the Grb10-Interacting GYF Protein-2 gene (GIGYF2), located in the chromosomal region 2q36-q37, in familial Parkinson disease (PD) patients of European descent. To determine the contribution of GIGYF2 mutations in an extended (N= 305) Belgian series of both familial and sporadic PD patients, we sequenced all 32 coding and non-coding exons of GIGYF2. In three sporadic PD patients we identified two novel heterozygous missense mutations (c.1907A>G, p.Tyr636Cys and c.2501G>A, p.Arg834Gln), that were absent from control individuals (N= 360). However, since we lack genetic as well as functional data supporting their pathogenic nature, we cannot exclude that these variants are benign polymorphisms. Together, our results do not support a role for GIGYF2 in the genetic etiology of Belgian PD.
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English
Source (journal)
Neurobiology of aging. - Fayetteville, N.Y.
Publication
Fayetteville, N.Y. : 2011
ISSN
0197-4580
DOI
10.1016/J.NEUROBIOLAGING.2009.02.016
Volume/pages
32 :2 (2011) , p. 308-312
ISI
000285219600012
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