Association of SNCA with Parkinson: Replication in the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center Biomarker Study

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2283-2286

  Ding, Hongliu ^a   Sarokhan, Alison K ^a,b   Roderick, Sarah S ^a,b   Bakshi, Rachit ^a   Maher, Nancy E ^a,b   Ashourian, Paymon ^a,c   Kan, Caroline G ^a,b   Chang, Sunny ^a,b   Santarlasci, Andrea ^b,d   Swords, Kyleen E ^b,d   Ravina, Bernard M ^e   Hayes, Michael T ^d   Sohur, U Shivraj ^d   Wills, Anne Marie ^d   Flaherty, Alice W ^d   Unni, Vivek K ^d   Hung, Albert Y ^d   Selkoe, Dennis J ^a   Schwarzschild, Michael A ^d   Schlossmacher, Michael G ^f   Sudarsky, Lewis R ^d   Growdon, John H ^d   Ivinson, Adrian J ^b   Hyman, Bradley T ^b,d   Scherzer, Clemens R ^a,b,d   more..

^a Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Neurologic Diseases   (United States)

^b The Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration & Repair   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e BIOGEN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

synuclein; Biomarker; GATA transcription factors; Genome wide association study; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN;

AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 80055088843     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23934     Document Type: Article

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