Volume 15, Issue 4 pp. 431-433

Inflammation-related genes and the risk of Parkinson’s disease: a multilocus approach

J. Infante

J. Infante

Service of Neurology and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), University Hospital ‘Marqués de Valdecilla’ (University of Cantabria), Santander, Spain

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I. García-Gorostiaga

I. García-Gorostiaga

Service of Neurology and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), University Hospital ‘Marqués de Valdecilla’ (University of Cantabria), Santander, Spain

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P. Sánchez-Juan

P. Sánchez-Juan

Institute for Formation and Research of the Foundation ‘Marqués de Valdecilla’ (IFIMAV), Santander, Spain

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C. Sánchez-Quintana

C. Sánchez-Quintana

Service of Neurology and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), University Hospital ‘Marqués de Valdecilla’ (University of Cantabria), Santander, Spain

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J. L. Gurpegui

J. L. Gurpegui

Service of Neurology, Laredo Hospital, Laredo, Spain

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E. Rodríguez-Rodríguez

E. Rodríguez-Rodríguez

Service of Neurology and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), University Hospital ‘Marqués de Valdecilla’ (University of Cantabria), Santander, Spain

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I. Mateo

I. Mateo

Service of Neurology and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), University Hospital ‘Marqués de Valdecilla’ (University of Cantabria), Santander, Spain

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J. Berciano

J. Berciano

Service of Neurology and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), University Hospital ‘Marqués de Valdecilla’ (University of Cantabria), Santander, Spain

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O. Combarros

O. Combarros

Service of Neurology and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), University Hospital ‘Marqués de Valdecilla’ (University of Cantabria), Santander, Spain

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First published: 18 February 2008
Citations: 27
Jon Infante, Neurology Service, University Hospital ‘Marqués de Valdecilla’, 39008 Santander, Spain (tel.: 34 942 202520; fax: 34 942 202655; e-mail: [email protected]).

Abstract

For the first time, the multilocus approach by the set-association method has been applied for the analysis of a cluster of five genes [tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α), interleukin 6 (IL-6), IL-8, IL-1α and IL-10] involved in the brain neuroinflammatory pathway in Parkinson’s disease (PD), in a well-defined group of 197 PD patients and 173 control subjects from Spain. Set-association analysis did not reveal an independent or an interactive effect of these inflammatory genes on the PD risk.

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