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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ding, Hongliu
• Sarokhan, Alison K.
• Roderick, Sarah S.
• Bakshi, Rachit
• Maher, Nancy E.
• Ashourian, Paymon
• Kan, Caroline G.
• Chang, Sunny
• Santarlasci, Andrea
• Swords, Kyleen E.
• Ravina, Bernard M.
• Hayes, Michael T.
• Sohur, U. Shivraj
• Wills, Anne-Marie
• Flaherty, Alice W.
• Unni, Vivek K.
• Hung, Albert Y.
• Selkoe, Dennis J.
• Schwarzschild, Michael A.
• Schlossmacher, Michael G.
• Sudarsky, Lewis R.
• Growdon, John H.
• Ivinson, Adrian J.
• Hyman, Bradley T.
• Scherzer, Clemens R.

Titel

Association of SNCA with Parkinson: Replication in the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center Biomarker Study

Ist Teil von

• Movement disorders, 2011-10, Vol.26 (12), p.2283-2286

Ort / Verlag

Hoboken: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Background: Mutations in the α‐synuclein gene (SNCA) cause autosomal dominant forms of Parkinson's disease, but the substantial risk conferred by this locus to the common sporadic disease has only recently emerged from genome‐wide association studies. Methods: We genotyped a prioritized noncoding variant in SNCA intron 4 in 344 patients with Parkinson's disease and 275 controls from the longitudinal Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center Biomarker Study. Results: The common minor allele of rs2736990 was associated with elevated disease susceptibility (odds ratio, 1.40; P = .0032). Conclusions: This result increases confidence in the notion that in many clinically well‐characterized patients, genetic variation in SNCA contributes to “sporadic” disease. © 2011 Movement Disorder Society