Different methylation of the TNF-alpha promoter in cortex and substantia nigra: Implications for selective neuronal vulnerability.

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Summary

Compared DNA from different brain regions of PD patients and neurologically healthy, age and sex matched controls was compared by bisulfite sequencing of the TNF-alpha promoter region, revealing no particular pattern in PD patients compared to control and identified no particular hypomethylated position in cortex or SNpc DNA.

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2008-12-01
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Keywords

Substantia nigra, Pars compacta, DNA methylation, Biology, Promoter

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