Analysis of common and rare VPS13C variants in late-onset Parkinson disease

Uladzislau Rudakou1, Jennifer A Ruskey1, Lynne Krohn1

  • 1Department of Human Genetics (U.R., L.K., G.A.R, Z.G.-O.), McGill University, Montréal; Montreal Neurological Institute (U.R., J.A.R., L.K., S.B.L., D.S., G.A.R., E.A.F.Z.G.-O.), McGill University; Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery (J.A.R., S.B.L., D.S., G.A.R., E.A.F., Z.G.-O.), McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada; The Danek Gertner Institute of Human Genetics, Sheba Medical Center (L.G.); The Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center (L.G., S.H.-B.), Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan; Sackler School of Medicine (L.G., G.Y., S.H.-B.), Tel-Aviv University; Department of Neurology (G.Y., S.H.-B.), Sheba Medical Center; Movement Disorders Institute (G.Y., S.H.-B.), Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel; Centre d'Études Avancées en Médecine du Sommeil (A.D., J.Y.M.), Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal; Department of Neurosciences (A.D.), Université de Montréal; Department of Psychiatry (J.Y.M.), Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada; Department of Neurology (S.F., C.H.W., O.L., C.M.K., S.N., R.N.A.), College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.D.), National Reference Center for Narcolepsy, Sleep Unit, Gui-de-Chauliac Hospital, CHU Montpellier, University of Montpellier, Inserm, France; Division of Neurosciences (N.D.), CHU de Québec, Université Laval; Department of Medicine (N.D.), Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada; and Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain (R.N.A.), College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York.

Neurology. Genetics
|February 12, 2020
PubMed
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