Brain Advance Access originally published online on June 5, 2009
Brain 2009 132(10):e125; doi:10.1093/brain/awp161
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Differential phenotype in Parkinson's disease patients with severe versus mild GBA mutations
1 The Genetic Institute, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2 The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel 3 Movement Disorders Unit Parkinson Center, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Correspondence to: Avi Orr-Urtreger, Genetic Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizmann Street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel E-mail: aviorr@tasmc.health.gov.il
Received March 23, 2009. Revised April 21, 2009. Accepted May 14, 2009.
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Sir, We read with much interest the comprehensive study by Neumann et al. (2009
), published in Brain, which further demonstrated the importance of GBA mutations as risk factors for Parkinson's disease. GBA mutations are being divided into two groups according to the