“…A small population of PD cases is caused by genetic abnormalities, involving alpha-synuclein (Polymeropoulos et al, 1997;Papadimitrior et al, 1999and Kruger et al,1998, Dauer et al, 2002, ubiquitin (Leroy et al, 1998) and apolipoprotein E (APOE), (Kruger et al, 1999). Changes in chromosome 2p13 (Gasser et al, 1998), cyp2D6 (Kruger et al, 1999;Christensen et al, 1998;Kosel et al, 1996;Bon et al, 1999, Sabbagh et al, 1999 as well as mitochondria tRNA (A4336G) (Epensperger et al, 1997) have also been reported. The mutation of the parkin gene is closely associated with juvenile PD (Kitada et al, 1998), which has about eight variants (Lansbury and Brice, 2002).…”