Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2023 Feb;38(2):286-303.
doi: 10.1002/mds.29288. Epub 2023 Jan 24.

Embracing Monogenic Parkinson's Disease: The MJFF Global Genetic PD Cohort

Eva-Juliane Vollstedt  1 Susen Schaake  1 Katja Lohmann  1 Shalini Padmanabhan  2 Alexis Brice  3 Suzanne Lesage  4 Christelle Tesson  4 Marie Vidailhet  3 Isabel Wurster  5 Faycel Hentati  6 Anat Mirelman  7 Nir Giladi  8 Karen Marder  9 Cheryl Waters  10 Stanley Fahn  10 Meike Kasten  11 Norbert Brüggemann  12 Max Borsche  12 Tatiana Foroud  13 Eduardo Tolosa  14 Alicia Garrido  14 Grazia Annesi  15 Monica Gagliardi  15 Maria Bozi  16 Leonidas Stefanis  17 Joaquim J Ferreira  18 Leonor Correia Guedes  19 Micol Avenali  20 Simona Petrucci  21 Lorraine Clark  22 Ekaterina Y Fedotova  23 Natalya Y Abramycheva  23 Victoria Alvarez  24 Manuel Menéndez-González  25 Silvia Jesús Maestre  26 Pilar Gómez-Garre  26 Pablo Mir  26 Andrea Carmine Belin  27 Caroline Ran  27 Chin-Hsien Lin  28 Ming-Che Kuo  28 David Crosiers  29 Zbigniew K Wszolek  30 Owen A Ross  31 Joseph Jankovic  32 Kenya Nishioka  33 Manabu Funayama  34 Jordi Clarimon  35 Caroline H Williams-Gray  36 Marta Camacho  36 Mario Cornejo-Olivas  37 Luis Torres-Ramirez  38 Yih-Ru Wu  39 Guey-Jen Lee-Chen  40 Ana Morgadinho  41 Teeratorn Pulkes  42 Pichet Termsarasab  42 Daniela Berg  43 Gregor Kuhlenbäumer  43 Andrea A Kühn  44 Friederike Borngräber  44 Giuseppe de Michele  45 Anna De Rosa  45 Alexander Zimprich  46 Andreas Puschmann  47 George D Mellick  48 Jolanta Dorszewska  49 Jonathan Carr  50 Rosangela Ferese  51 Stefano Gambardella  51 Bruce Chase  52 Katerina Markopoulou  53 Wataru Satake  54 Tatsushi Toda  55 Malco Rossi  54 Marcelo Merello  56 Timothy Lynch  57 Diana A Olszewska  57 Shen-Yang Lim  58 Azlina Ahmad-Annuar  59 Ai Huey Tan  58 Bashayer Al-Mubarak  60 Hasmet Hanagasi  61 Dariusz Koziorowski  62 Sibel Ertan  63 Gençer Genç  64 Patricia de Carvalho Aguiar  65 Melinda Barkhuizen  66 Marcia M G Pimentel  67 Rachel Saunders-Pullman  68 Bart van de Warrenburg  69 Susan Bressman  70 Mathias Toft  71 Silke Appel-Cresswell  72 Anthony E Lang  73 Matej Skorvanek  74 Agnita J W Boon  75 Rejko Krüger  76 Esther M Sammler  77 Vitor Tumas  78 Bao-Rong Zhang  79 Gaetan Garraux  80 Sun Ju Chung  81 Yun Joong Kim  82 Juliane Winkelmann  83 Carolyn M Sue  84 Eng-King Tan  85 Joana Damásio  86 Péter Klivényi  87 Vladimir S Kostic  88 David Arkadir  89 Mika Martikainen  90 Vanderci Borges  91 Jens Michael Hertz  92 Laura Brighina  93 Mariana Spitz  94 Oksana Suchowersky  95 Olaf Riess  96 Parimal Das  97 Brit Mollenhauer  98 Emilia M Gatto  99 Maria Skaalum Petersen  100 Nobutaka Hattori  34 Ruey-Meei Wu  28 Sergey N Illarioshkin  23 Enza Maria Valente  101 Jan O Aasly  102   103 Anna Aasly  104 Roy N Alcalay  10 Avner Thaler  105 Matthew J Farrer  106 Kathrin Brockmann  5 Jean-Christophe Corvol  107 Christine Klein  1 MJFF Global Genetic Parkinson's Disease Study Group
Collaborators, Affiliations
Free article

Embracing Monogenic Parkinson's Disease: The MJFF Global Genetic PD Cohort

Eva-Juliane Vollstedt et al. Mov Disord. 2023 Feb.
Free article

Abstract

Background: As gene-targeted therapies are increasingly being developed for Parkinson's disease (PD), identifying and characterizing carriers of specific genetic pathogenic variants is imperative. Only a small fraction of the estimated number of subjects with monogenic PD worldwide are currently represented in the literature and availability of clinical data and clinical trial-ready cohorts is limited.

Objective: The objectives are to (1) establish an international cohort of affected and unaffected individuals with PD-linked variants; (2) provide harmonized and quality-controlled clinical characterization data for each included individual; and (3) further promote collaboration of researchers in the field of monogenic PD.

Methods: We conducted a worldwide, systematic online survey to collect individual-level data on individuals with PD-linked variants in SNCA, LRRK2, VPS35, PRKN, PINK1, DJ-1, as well as selected pathogenic and risk variants in GBA and corresponding demographic, clinical, and genetic data. All registered cases underwent thorough quality checks, and pathogenicity scoring of the variants and genotype-phenotype relationships were analyzed.

Results: We collected 3888 variant carriers for our analyses, reported by 92 centers (42 countries) worldwide. Of the included individuals, 3185 had a diagnosis of PD (ie, 1306 LRRK2, 115 SNCA, 23 VPS35, 429 PRKN, 75 PINK1, 13 DJ-1, and 1224 GBA) and 703 were unaffected (ie, 328 LRRK2, 32 SNCA, 3 VPS35, 1 PRKN, 1 PINK1, and 338 GBA). In total, we identified 269 different pathogenic variants; 1322 individuals in our cohort (34%) were indicated as not previously published.

Conclusions: Within the MJFF Global Genetic PD Study Group, we (1) established the largest international cohort of affected and unaffected individuals carrying PD-linked variants; (2) provide harmonized and quality-controlled clinical and genetic data for each included individual; (3) promote collaboration in the field of genetic PD with a view toward clinical and genetic stratification of patients for gene-targeted clinical trials. © 2023 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

Keywords: Parkinson's disease; monogenic PD.

PubMed Disclaimer

References

    1. Domingo A, Klein C. Genetics of Parkinson disease. 2018. p. 211-27.
    1. Skrahina V, Gaber H, Vollstedt E, Förster TM, Usnich T, Curado F, et al. The Rostock international Parkinson's disease (ROPAD) study: protocol and initial findings. Mov Disord 2021;36(4):1005-10.
    1. Mullin S, Smith L, Lee K, D'Souza G, Woodgate P, Elflein J, et al. Ambroxol for the treatment of patients with Parkinson disease with and without glucocerebrosidase gene mutations: a nonrandomized, noncontrolled trial. JAMA Neurol 2020;77(4):427-434.
    1. Prasuhn J, Brüggemann N. Genotype-driven therapeutic developments in Parkinson's disease. Mol Med (Cambridge, MA) 2021;27(1):42.
    1. Dorsey ER, Constantinescu R, Thompson JP, Biglan KM, Holloway RG, Kieburtz K, et al. Projected number of people with Parkinson disease in the most populous nations, 2005 through 2030. Neurology 2007;68(5):384-386.

Publication types