• Genetic assessment of familial and early-onset Parkinson's disease in a Greek population 

      Bozi, M.; Papadimitriou, D.; Antonellou, R.; Moraitou, M.; Maniati, M.; Vassilatis, D. K.; Papageorgiou, S. G.; Leonardos, A.; Tagaris, G.; Malamis, G.; Theofilopoulos, D.; Kamakari, S.; Stamboulis, E.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Athanassiadou, A.; Michelakakis, H.; Papadimitriou, A.; Gasser, T.; Stefanis, L. (2014)
      Background and purpose Although the first mutation associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) was identified several years ago in the alpha-synuclein (SNCA) gene in families of Greek and Italian ancestry, a more systematic ...
    • A large-scale genetic association study to evaluate the contribution of Omi/HtrA2 (PARK13) to Parkinson's disease 

      Krüger, R.; Sharma, M.; Riess, O.; Gasser, T.; Van Broeckhoven, C.; Theuns, J.; Aasly, J.; Annesi, G.; Bentivoglio, A. R.; Brice, A.; Djarmati, A.; Elbaz, A.; Farrer, M.; Ferrarese, C.; Gibson, J. M.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Hattori, N.; Ioannidis, J. P. A.; Jasinska-Myga, B.; Klein, C.; Lambert, J. C.; Lesage, S.; Lin, J. J.; Lynch, T.; Mellick, G. D.; de Nigris, F.; Opala, G.; Prigione, A.; Quattrone, A.; Ross, O. A.; Satake, W.; Silburn, P. A.; Tan, E. K.; Toda, T.; Tomiyama, H.; Wirdefeldt, K.; Wszolek, Z.; Xiromerisiou, G.; Maraganore, D. M. (2011)
      High-profile studies have provided conflicting results regarding the involvement of the Omi/HtrA2 gene in Parkinson's disease (PD) susceptibility. Therefore, we performed a large-scale analysis of the association of common ...
    • Large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies six new risk loci for Parkinson's disease 

      Nalls, M. A.; Pankratz, N.; Lill, C. M.; Do, C. B.; Hernandez, D. G.; Saad, M.; DeStefano, A. L.; Kara, E.; Bras, J.; Sharma, M.; Schulte, C.; Keller, M. F.; Arepalli, S.; Letson, C.; Edsall, C.; Stefansson, H.; Liu, X.; Pliner, H.; Lee, J. H.; Cheng, R.; Ikram, M. A.; Ioannidis, J. P. A.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Bis, J. C.; Martinez, M.; Perlmutter, J. S.; Goate, A.; Marder, K.; Fiske, B.; Sutherland, M.; Xiromerisiou, G.; Myers, R. H.; Clark, L. N.; Stefansson, K.; Hardy, J. A.; Heutink, P.; Chen, H.; Wood, N. W.; Houlden, H.; Payami, H.; Brice, A.; Scott, W. K.; Gasser, T.; Bertram, L.; Eriksson, N.; Foroud, T.; Singleton, A. B.; Ipdg; Parkins, G. Parkinson's Study Grp PSG; AndMe; GenePd; Ngrc; Hihg; Ashkenazi Jewish Dataset, Investiga; Charge; Nabec; Ukbec; Greek Parkinson's Dis, Consortium; Alzheimer Genetic Analysis, Gr (2014)
      We conducted a meta-analysis of Parkinson's disease genome-wide association studies using a common set of 7,893,274 variants across 13,708 cases and 95,282 controls. Twenty-six loci were identified as having genome-wide ...
    • Large-scale replication and heterogeneity in Parkinson disease genetic loci 

      Sharma, M.; Ioannidis, J. P. A.; Aasly, J. O.; Annesi, G.; Brice, A.; Van Broeckhoven, C.; Bertram, L.; Bozi, M.; Crosiers, D.; Clarke, C.; Facheris, M.; Farrer, M.; Garraux, G.; Gispert, S.; Auburger, G.; Vilariño-Güell, C.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Hicks, A. A.; Hattori, N.; Jeon, B.; Lesage, S.; Lill, C. M.; Lin, J. J.; Lynch, T.; Lichtner, P.; Lang, A. E.; Mok, V.; Jasinska-Myga, B.; Mellick, G. D.; Morrison, K. E.; Opala, G.; Pramstaller, P. P.; Pichler, I.; Park, S. S.; Quattrone, A.; Rogaeva, E.; Ross, O. A.; Stefanis, L.; Stockton, J. D.; Satake, W.; Silburn, P. A.; Theuns, J.; Tan, E. K.; Toda, T.; Tomiyama, H.; Uitti, R. J.; Wirdefeldt, K.; Wszolek, Z.; Xiromerisiou, G.; Yueh, K. C.; Zhao, Y.; Gasser, T.; Maraganore, D.; Krüger, R. (2012)
      Objective: Eleven genetic loci have reached genome-wide significance in a recent meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in Parkinson disease (PD) based on populations of Caucasian descent. The extent to which ...
    • A multi-centre clinico-genetic analysis of the VPS35 gene in Parkinson disease indicates reduced penetrance for disease-associated variants 

      Sharma, M.; Ioannidis, J. P. A.; Aasly, J. O.; Annesi, G.; Brice, A.; Bertram, L.; Bozi, M.; Barcikowska, M.; Crosiers, D.; Clarke, C. E.; Facheris, M. F.; Farrer, M.; Garraux, G.; Gispert, S.; Auburger, G.; Vilarino-Guell, C.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Hicks, A. A.; Hattori, N.; Jeon, B. S.; Jamrozik, Z.; Krygowska-Wajs, A.; Lesage, S.; Lill, C. M.; Lin, J. J.; Lynch, T.; Lichtner, P.; Lang, A. E.; Libioulle, C.; Murata, M.; Mok, V.; Jasinska-Myga, B.; Mellick, G. D.; Morrison, K. E.; Meitnger, T.; Zimprich, A.; Opala, G.; Pramstaller, P. P.; Pichler, I.; Park, S. S.; Quattrone, A.; Rogaeva, E.; Ross, O. A.; Stefanis, L.; Stockton, J. D.; Satake, W.; Silburn, P. A.; Strom, T. M.; Theuns, J.; Tan, E. K.; Toda, T.; Tomiyama, H.; Uitti, R. J.; Van Broeckhoven, C.; Wirdefeldt, K.; Wszolek, Z.; Xiromerisiou, G.; Yomono, H. S.; Yueh, K. C.; Zhao, Y.; Gasser, T.; Maraganore, D.; Kruger, R.; Consortium, Geopd (2012)
      Background Two recent studies identified a mutation (p.Asp620Asn) in the vacuolar protein sorting 35 gene as a cause for an autosomal dominant form of Parkinson disease. Although additional missense variants were described, ...