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    Kaasinen, Valtteri; Hietala, Marja; Kuoppamäki, Mikko

    Duodecim (Helsinki, Finland : 1961), 2015, Letnik: 131, Številka: 12
    Magazine Article

    The most common cause of monogenic hereditary Parkinson's disease is a mutation in the PARK2 gene. Early onset, slow progression, dystonia, and good response to levodopa are typical of the disease phenotype. Finnish PARK2 patients have not been described previously. We describe two patients, in whom pathogenic mutations in the PARK2 gene were the cause of parkinsonism.