Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 167-171 , March 2010

Evaluation of PINK1 variants in Indian Parkinson's disease patients

  • Arindam Biswas

      Affiliations

    • S. N. Pradhan Centre for Neurosciences, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
    • ,
  • Tamal Sadhukhan

      Affiliations

    • S. N. Pradhan Centre for Neurosciences, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
    • ,
  • Sayantani Majumder

      Affiliations

    • S. N. Pradhan Centre for Neurosciences, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
    • ,
  • Amar K. Misra

      Affiliations

    • Movement Disorders Clinic, Bangur Institute of Neurosciences & Psychiatry, Kolkata, India
    • ,
  • Shyamal K. Das

      Affiliations

    • Movement Disorders Clinic, Bangur Institute of Neurosciences & Psychiatry, Kolkata, India
    • ,
  • Indian Genome Variation Consortium

      Affiliations

    • Nodal Laboratory, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India
    • ,
  • Kunal Ray

      Affiliations

    • Molecular & Human Genetics Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
    • ,
  • Jharna Ray

      Affiliations

    • S. N. Pradhan Centre for Neurosciences, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: S. N. Pradhan Centre for Neurosciences, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700 019, India. Tel.: +91 33 2223 2084; fax: +91 33 2223 3260.

Received 25 February 2009 ,Revised 1 September 2009 ,Accepted 12 October 2009.

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☆ The review of this paper was entirely handled by an Associate Editor, En-King Tan.

PII: S1353-8020(09)00252-1

doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2009.10.005

Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 167-171 , March 2010

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