Medical Hypotheses
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 171-173 , February 2001

Is Parkinson’s disease the heterozygote form of Wilson’s disease: PD = 1/2 WD?

Received 15 November 1999 ,Accepted 28 March 2000.

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PII: S0306-9877(00)91134-4

doi: 10.1054/mehy.2000.1134

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 171-173 , February 2001

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