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This work was funded by the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission (contracts 4001, 05-901, 0011, and 1001), the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (Prescott Family Initiative), the Arizona Department of Health Services (contract 211002), and the National Institute on Aging (P30 AG19610).
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Adler, C.H., Caviness, J.N., Sabbagh, M.N. et al. Heterogeneous neuropathological findings in Parkinson’s disease with mild cognitive impairment. Acta Neuropathol 120, 827–828 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-010-0744-4
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