Parkinson disease risk variants in East Asian populations

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. robinwu@ntu.edu.tw.
² Department of Neurology, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

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Ruey-Meei Wu et al. Nat Rev Neurol. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;16(9):461-462.

doi: 10.1038/s41582-020-0379-6.

¹ Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. robinwu@ntu.edu.tw.
² Department of Neurology, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

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Identification of Risk Loci for Parkinson Disease in Asians and Comparison of Risk Between Asians and Europeans: A Genome-Wide Association Study.
Foo JN, Chew EGY, Chung SJ, Peng R, Blauwendraat C, Nalls MA, Mok KY, Satake W, Toda T, Chao Y, Tan LCS, Tandiono M, Lian MM, Ng EY, Prakash KM, Au WL, Meah WY, Mok SQ, Annuar AA, Chan AYY, Chen L, Chen Y, Jeon BS, Jiang L, Lim JL, Lin JJ, Liu C, Mao C, Mok V, Pei Z, Shang HF, Shi CH, Song K, Tan AH, Wu YR, Xu YM, Xu R, Yan Y, Yang J, Zhang B, Koh WP, Lim SY, Khor CC, Liu J, Tan EK. Foo JN, et al. JAMA Neurol. 2020 Jun 1;77(6):746-754. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.0428. JAMA Neurol. 2020. PMID: 32310270 Free PMC article.

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