Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6279625 | Neuroscience Letters | 2016 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most frequent neurological disorders with elusive etiology, typically characterized by postural and kinetic tremors. Evidence reveals that genetic components are implicated in the development of ET and there are some overlaps between ET and Parkinson's disease in clinical features and etiology. Variants in the fibroblast growth factor 20 gene (FGF20) have been reported to be associated with the risk of Parkinson's disease. To evaluate the association between the FGF20 gene variants and ET susceptibility, we conducted genetic analysis of five FGF20 variants (rs1721100, rs1989754, rs10089600, rs12720208, and rs17550360) in 200 patients with ET and 426 ethnically-matched Chinese Han normal controls. Statistical analysis did not identify significant differences in genotypic or allelic frequencies of variants between ET patients and normal controls (all PÂ >Â 0.05). No related haplotype was found to be related to the risk of ET. The findings indicate the FGF20 gene might not play a dominating role in the genetic predisposition to ET in Chinese Han population.
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Authors
Lamei Yuan, Zhi Song, Xiong Deng, Wen Zheng, Zhijian Yang, Yan Yang, Hao Deng,