PARK2 patient neuroprogenitors show increased mitochondrial sensitivity to copper.

Poorly-defined interactions between environmental and genetic risk factors underlie Parkinson's disease etiology. Here we tested the hypothesis that human stem cell derived forebrain neuroprogenitors from patients with known familial risk for early onset PD will exhibit enhanced sensitivity to PD environmental risk factors compared to healthy control subjects without a family history of PD.

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