Genetic risk of Parkinson disease and progression:: An analysis of 13 longitudinal cohorts

Hirotaka Iwaki1, Cornelis Blauwendraat1, Hampton L Leonard1

  • 1Laboratory of Neurogenetics (H.I., C.B., H.L.L., F.F., D.G.H., A.B.S., M.A.N.), National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda; Data Tecnica International (H.I., M.A.N.), Glen Echo, MD; Precision Neurology Program (G.L., C.R.S.), Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Neurogenomics Laboratory (G.L., C.R.S.), Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases (G.L., C.R.S.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; The Norwegian Centre for Movement Disorders (J.M.-G., G.A.), Stavanger University Hospital; Department of Chemistry (J.M.-G., G.A.), Bioscience and Environmental Engineering, University of Stavanger, Norway; Assistance-Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (J.-C.C.), ICM, INSERM UMRS 1127, CNRS 7225, ICM, Department of Neurology and CIC Neurosciences, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (L.P., M.T.), Oslo University Hospital, Norway; Department of Neurology (M.N., B.R.B., B.P.W.), Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Michael J Fox Foundation (S.J.H.), New York; Translational Genome Sciences (K.-D.H.N, K.E.), Biogen, Cambridge, MA; Department of Neurology University of Pennsylvania (J.R.), Philadelphia, PA; Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology (S.E.), University of Rochester, NY; Department of Computer Science (F.F.), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Department of Neurology (P.A.), Center for Health + Technology, University of Rochester, NY; Department of Clinical Neurosciences (K.M.S., R.W.), University of Cambridge, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, UK; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (V.M.V.D.), Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Parelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Genetics and Pharmacogenomics (A.G.D.-W.), Merck Research Laboratory, Boston, MA; Statistical Genetics (A.G.D.-W.), Biogen, Cambridge, MA; Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière ICM (A.B., F.D.); Sorbonne Université SU (A.B.); INSERM UMR (A.B.), Paris, France; Department of Neurology (G.A.), Stavanger University Hospital, Norway; Preventive Neurology Unit (A.J.N.), Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London; Department of Molecular Neuroscience (A.J.N.), UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; Department of Neurology (O.-B.T.), Haukeland University Hospital; University of Bergen (O.-B.T.), Bergen, Norway; Department of Neurology (J.R.E.), Nottingham University NHS Trust, UK; Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences (D.P.B.), University of Edinburgh; Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic (D.P.B.), University of Edinburgh; Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics (D.P.B.), University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics (C.E.W.), Indiana University, Indianapolis; Department of Neurology (D.K.S.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Harvard Medical School (D.K.S.), Boston; Voyager Therapeutics (B.R.), Cambridge, MA; Department of Neurology (B.R.), University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY; Institute of Clinical Medicine (M.T.), University of Oslo, Norway; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases-Tubingen (P.H.); HIH Tuebingen (P.H.), Germany; Department of Psychiatry (D.W.), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Department of Veterans Affairs (D.W.), Philadelphia, PA; and Department of Clinical Neurosciences (R.A.B., C.H.W.-G.), University of Cambridge, UK; Department of Neurology (J.J.V.H.), Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.

Neurology. Genetics
|August 13, 2019
PubMed
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