Hereditary Early-Onset Parkinson's Disease Caused by Mutations in PINK1

@article{Valente2004HereditaryEP,
  title={Hereditary Early-Onset Parkinson's Disease Caused by Mutations in PINK1},
  author={Enza Maria Valente and Patrick M. Abou-Sleiman and Viviana Caputo and Miratul M. K. Muqit and Kirsten Harvey and Suzana Gispert and Zeeshan Ali and Domenico Del Turco and Anna Rita Bentivoglio and Daniel G. Healy and Alberto Albanese and Robert Luke Nussbaum and Rafael González-Maldonado and Thomas Deller and Sergio Salvi and Pietro Cortelli and William P. Gilks and D. S. Latchman and Robert J. Harvey and Bruno Dallapiccola and Georg Auburger and Nicholas W. Wood},
  journal={Science},
  year={2004},
  volume={304},
  pages={1158 - 1160}
}
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. We previously mapped a locus for a rare familial form of PD to chromosome 1p36 (PARK6). Here we show that mutations in PINK1 (PTEN-induced kinase 1) are associated with PARK6. We have identified two homozygous mutations affecting the PINK1 kinase domain in three consanguineous PARK6 families: a truncating nonsense mutation and a missense mutation at a highly… 
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