Inflammation and immune dysfunction in Parkinson disease

MG Tansey, RL Wallings, MC Houser… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Parkinson disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects peripheral
organs as well as the central nervous system and involves a fundamental role of …

Parkinson's disease genetics and pathophysiology

GE Vázquez-Vélez, HY Zoghbi - Annual review of neuroscience, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by
degeneration of the substantia nigra pars compacta and by accumulation of α-synuclein in …

A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies 17 new Parkinson's disease risk loci

D Chang, MA Nalls, IB Hallgrímsdóttir, J Hunkapiller… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Common variant genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have, to date, identified> 24
risk loci for Parkinson's disease (PD). To discover additional loci, we carried out a GWAS …

The genetics of Parkinson's disease and implications for clinical practice

JO Day, S Mullin - Genes, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
The genetic landscape of Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterised by rare high penetrance
pathogenic variants causing familial disease, genetic risk factor variants driving PD risk in a …

Mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease: new mechanistic insights and therapeutic perspectives

JS Park, RL Davis, CM Sue - Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2018‏ - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative
disorder, the aetiology of which is still largely unknown. Overwhelming evidence indicates …

Parkinson's disease: from pathogenesis to pharmacogenomics

R Cacabelos - International journal of molecular sciences, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most important age-related neurodegenerative
disorder in developed societies, after Alzheimer's disease, with a prevalence ranging from …

Mitophagy in human diseases

L Doblado, C Lueck, C Rey, AK Samhan-Arias… - International journal of …, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Mitophagy is a selective autophagic process, essential for cellular homeostasis, that
eliminates dysfunctional mitochondria. Activated by inner membrane depolarization, it plays …

Excessive burden of lysosomal storage disorder gene variants in Parkinson's disease

LA Robak, IE Jansen, J Van Rooij, AG Uitterlinden… - Brain, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Mutations in the glucocerebrosidase gene (GBA), which cause Gaucher disease, are also
potent risk factors for Parkinson's disease. We examined whether a genetic burden of …

Large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies six new risk loci for Parkinson's disease

MA Nalls, N Pankratz, CM Lill, CB Do, DG Hernandez… - Nature …, 2014‏ - nature.com
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 …

Efficient Bayesian mixed-model analysis increases association power in large cohorts

PR Loh, G Tucker, BK Bulik-Sullivan, BJ Vilhjálmsson… - Nature …, 2015‏ - nature.com
Linear mixed models are a powerful statistical tool for identifying genetic associations and
avoiding confounding. However, existing methods are computationally intractable in large …