Genetics of Parkinson's disease: an introspection of its journey towards precision medicine

S Bandres-Ciga, M Diez-Fairen, JJ Kim… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT A substantial proportion of risk for Parkinson's disease (PD) is driven by
genetics. Progress in understanding the genetic basis of PD has been significant. So far …

Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

MA Nalls, C Blauwendraat, CL Vallerga… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in Parkinson's disease have
increased the scope of biological knowledge about the disease over the past decade. We …

Pesticides and Parkinson's disease: Current and future perspective

MS Islam, F Azim, H Saju, A Zargaran, M Shirzad… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Inappropriate use of pesticides has globally exposed mankind to a number of health
hazards. Still their production is rising at the rate of 11% annually and, has already …

Single-cell sequencing of human midbrain reveals glial activation and a Parkinson-specific neuronal state

S Smajić, CA Prada-Medina, Z Landoulsi, J Ghelfi… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Idiopathic Parkinson's disease is characterized by a progressive loss of dopaminergic
neurons, but the exact disease aetiology remains largely unknown. To date, Parkinson's …

A reference human induced pluripotent stem cell line for large-scale collaborative studies

CB Pantazis, A Yang, E Lara, JA McDonough… - Cell stem cell, 2022 - cell.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines are a powerful tool for studying
development and disease, but the considerable phenotypic variation between lines makes it …

LRRK 2 activation controls the repair of damaged endomembranes in macrophages

S Herbst, P Campbell, J Harvey, EM Bernard… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Cells respond to endolysosome damage by either repairing the damage or targeting
damaged endolysosomes for degradation via lysophagy. However, the signals regulating …

Identification of genetic risk loci and causal insights associated with Parkinson's disease in African and African admixed populations: a genome-wide association study

M Rizig, S Bandres-Ciga, MB Makarious… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background An understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying diseases in
ancestrally diverse populations is an important step towards development of targeted …

Genetic modifiers of risk and age at onset in GBA associated Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia

C Blauwendraat, X Reed, L Krohn, K Heilbron… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Parkinson's disease is a genetically complex disorder. Multiple genes have been shown to
contribute to the risk of Parkinson's disease, and currently 90 independent risk variants have …

Sequence of clinical and neurodegeneration events in Parkinson's disease progression

NP Oxtoby, LA Leyland, LM Aksman, GEC Thomas… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Dementia is one of the most debilitating aspects of Parkinson's disease. There are no
validated biomarkers that can track Parkinson's disease progression, nor accurately identify …

GenoTools: An open-source Python package for efficient genotype data quality control and analysis

D Vitale, MJ Koretsky, N Kuznetsov… - G3: Genes …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
GenoTools, a Python package, streamlines population genetics research by integrating
ancestry estimation, quality control, and genome-wide association studies capabilities into …