The pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease

HR Morris, MG Spillantini, CM Sue, CH Williams-Gray - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative condition associated with the
deposition of aggregated α-synuclein. Insights into the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease …

The genetics of neurodegenerative diseases is the genetics of age-related damage clearance failure

J Hardy, V Escott-Price - Molecular Psychiatry, 2025 - nature.com
In this perspective we draw together the data from the genome wide association studies for
Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and the tauopathies and reach the conclusion that …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging genetic diversity to understand monogenic Parkinson's disease's landscape in AfrAbia

W Mohamed - American Journal of Neurodegenerative Disease, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Parkinson's disease may be caused by a single highly deleterious and penetrant pathogenic
variant in 5-10% of cases (monogenic). Research into these mutational disorders yields …

The p.Gly2019Ser is a common LRRK2 pathogenic variant among Egyptians with familial and sporadic Parkinson's disease

MB William, S Hamed, A Shalash, EM Khedr… - npj Parkinson's …, 2024 - nature.com
The impact of LRRK2 variants on the risk of Parkinson's disease in Egyptians remains
unknown. We examined 1210 Egyptians (611 PD patients and 599 controls) from 16 …

Exploring the role of underrepresented populations in polygenic risk scores for neurodegenerative disease risk prediction

K Step, CAA Ndong Sima, I Mata… - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are characterized by the progressive loss of neuronal
function and structure (Lamptey et al., 2022). Additionally, neurodegeneration is associated …

omicSynth: an open multi‐omic community resource for identifying druggable targets across neurodegenerative diseases

CX Alvarado, MB Makarious, D Vitale… - Alzheimer's & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background While there have been recent successes for Alzheimer's disease (AD)
therapeutics, successful disease‐modifying treatments for AD and neurodegenerative …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient viral DNA in the human genome linked to neurodegenerative diseases

RRR Duarte, DF Nixon, TR Powell - Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are sequences in the
human genome that originated from infections with ancient retroviruses during our evolution …

Evaluating the performance of polygenic risk profiling across diverse ancestry populations in Parkinson's disease

P Saffie-Awad, I Elsayed, AO Sanyaolu, PW Crea… - 2023 - dro.deakin.edu.au
Evaluating the performance of polygenic risk profiling across diverse ancestry populations in
Parkinson’s disease Deakin University Browse Search File(s) under embargo Evaluating the …

Insights into Ancestral Diversity in Parkinsons Disease Risk: A Comparative Assessment of Polygenic Risk Scores

PS Awad, MB Makarious, I Elsayed, A Sanyaolu… - MedRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives To evaluate and compare different polygenic risk score (PRS) models in
predicting Parkinsons disease (PD) across diverse ancestries, focusing on identifying the …