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. 2019 Jul 9;5(4):e348.
doi: 10.1212/NXG.0000000000000348. eCollection 2019 Aug.

Genetic risk of Parkinson disease and progression:: An analysis of 13 longitudinal cohorts

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Genetic risk of Parkinson disease and progression:: An analysis of 13 longitudinal cohorts

Hirotaka Iwaki et al. Neurol Genet. .

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Abstract

Objective: To determine if any association between previously identified alleles that confer risk for Parkinson disease and variables measuring disease progression.

Methods: We evaluated the association between 31 risk variants and variables measuring disease progression. A total of 23,423 visits by 4,307 patients of European ancestry from 13 longitudinal cohorts in Europe, North America, and Australia were analyzed.

Results: We confirmed the importance of GBA on phenotypes. GBA variants were associated with the development of daytime sleepiness (p.N370S: hazard ratio [HR] 3.28 [1.69-6.34]) and possible REM sleep behavior (p.T408M: odds ratio 6.48 [2.04-20.60]). We also replicated previously reported associations of GBA variants with motor/cognitive declines. The other genotype-phenotype associations include an intergenic variant near LRRK2 and the faster development of motor symptom (Hoehn and Yahr scale 3.0 HR 1.33 [1.16-1.52] for the C allele of rs76904798) and an intronic variant in PMVK and the development of wearing-off effects (HR 1.66 [1.19-2.31] for the C allele of rs114138760). Age at onset was associated with TMEM175 variant p.M393T (-0.72 [-1.21 to -0.23] in years), the C allele of rs199347 (intronic region of GPNMB, 0.70 [0.27-1.14]), and G allele of rs1106180 (intronic region of CCDC62, 0.62 [0.21-1.03]).

Conclusions: This study provides evidence that alleles associated with Parkinson disease risk, in particular GBA variants, also contribute to the heterogeneity of multiple motor and nonmotor aspects. Accounting for genetic variability will be a useful factor in understanding disease course and in minimizing heterogeneity in clinical trials.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Forest plots for GBA (p.N370S and p.T408M) variants and symptoms of Parkinson disease
DATATOP = Deprenyl and Tocopherol Antioxidative Therapy of Parkinsonism; DIGPD = Drug Interaction with Genes in Parkinson's Disease; HBS = Harvard Biomarkers Study; NET-PD_LS1 = NIH Exploratory Trials in Parkinson's Disease Large Simple Study 1; Oslo = Oslo PD study; ParkFit = ParkFit study; ParkWest = the Norwegian ParkWest study; PDBP = Parkinson's Disease Biomarker Program; PICNICS = Parkinsonism: Incidence and Cognitive and Non-motor heterogeneity In CambridgeShire; PPMI = Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative; PreCEPT/PostCEPT = Parkinson Research Examination of CEP-1347 Trial with a subsequent prospective study; ProPark = Profiling Parkinson's Disease study; Udall = Morris K. Udall Centers for Parkinson's Research. * Indicates Beta in a Cox model; ** indicates Beta in a logistic model at baseline.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Forest plots for GBA (p.E365K) variants and symptoms of Parkinson disease
DATATOP = Deprenyl and Tocopherol Antioxidative Therapy of Parkinsonism; DIGPD = Drug Interaction with Genes in Parkinson's Disease; HBS = Harvard Biomarkers Study; NET-PD_LS1 = NIH Exploratory Trials in Parkinson's Disease Large Simple Study 1; Oslo = Oslo PD study; ParkFit = ParkFit study; ParkWest = the Norwegian ParkWest study; PDBP = Parkinson's Disease Biomarker Program; PICNICS = Parkinsonism: Incidence and Cognitive and Non-motor heterogeneity In CambridgeShire; PPMI = Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative; PreCEPT/PostCEPT = Parkinson Research Examination of CEP-1347 Trial with a subsequent prospective study; ProPark = Profiling Parkinson's Disease study; Udall = Morris K. Udall Centers for Parkinson's Research. * Indicates Beta in a Cox model; ** indicates Beta in a logistic model at baseline; *** indicates Beta in a linear mixed model.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Forest plots for non-GBA risk variants/genetic risk score and symptoms or features of Parkinson disease
DATATOP = Deprenyl and Tocopherol Antioxidative Therapy of Parkinsonism; DIGPD = Drug Interaction with Genes in Parkinson's Disease; HBS = Harvard Biomarkers Study; NET-PD_LS1 = NIH Exploratory Trials in Parkinson's Disease Large Simple Study 1; Oslo = oslo PD study; ParkFit = ParkFit study; ParkWest = the Norwegian ParkWest study; PDBP = Parkinson's Disease Biomarker Program; PICNICS = Parkinsonism: Incidence and Cognitive and Non-motor heterogeneity In CambridgeShire; PPMI = Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative; PreCEPT/PostCEPT = Parkinson Research Examination of CEP-1347 Trial with a subsequent prospective study; ProPark = Profiling Parkinson's Disease study; Udall = Morris K. Udall Centers for Parkinson's Research. * Indicates Beta in a Cox model; ** indicates Beta in a logistic model at baseline; *** indicates Beta in a linear mixed model.

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