Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 362-363 , June 2010

Author’s reply to the comment of Sironi et al. on “Compound heterozygosity in DJ-1 gene non-coding portion related to Parkinsonism”

  • Aldo Quattrone

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Istituto di Neurologia, Facoltà di Medicina Campus Universitario Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy. Tel.: +39 0961 3697011; fax: +39 0961 3647177.

Received 26 March 2010

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 The review of this paper was entirely handled by an Associate Editor, Vincenzo Bonifati.

PII: S1353-8020(10)00071-4

doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2010.03.005

Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 362-363 , June 2010