. . . . . . . . . . . . "[The aim of the current study is first to demonstrate whether there is an association between the three common VEGF polymorphisms (-2578C/A, -634C/G and 936C/T) in the VEGF gene and idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) which is a neurodegenerative disease caused by the progressive degeneration of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons, and second to see if the serum levels of VEGF is reduced in the patients with IPD.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2014-02-25"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2014-10-02T12:37:20+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v2.1.0.0" . "v2.1.0" .