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Exposure to pesticides and welding hastens the age-at-onset of Parkinson disease.

Gamache PL, Gan-Or Z, Lebouthiller J, Roux-Dubois N, Provencher P and Dupré N. Exposure to pesticides and welding hastens the age-at-onset of Parkinson diseaseCanadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. 2019. PubMed

SPTAN1 variants as a potential cause for autosomal recessive hereditary spastic paraplegia.

Leveille EEstiar MAKrohn L, Spiegelman D, Dionne-Laporte A, Dupré N, Trempe JF, Rouleau GA and Gan-Or ZSPTAN1 variants as a potential cause for autosomal recessive hereditary spastic paraplegiaJournal of Human Genetics. 2019. PubMed

Genetic variability and potential effects on clinical trial outcomes: perspectives in Parkinson’s Disease. 

Leonard H, Blauwendraat C, Krohn L, Faghri F, Iwaki H, Furgeson G, Day-Williams AG, Stone DJ, International Parkinson’s Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC), Singleton AB, Nalls MA and Gan-Or ZGenetic variability and potential effects on clinical trial outcomes: perspectives in Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Medical Genetics. 2019. PubMedPreprint

Classification of GBA variants and their effects in synucleinopathies.

Gan-Or Z, Alcalay RN, Makarious MB, Scholz SW, Blauwendraat C and the International Parkinson’s Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC). Classification of GBA variants and their effects in synucleinopathiesMovement Disorders. 2019. PubMed

Nalls MA, Blauwendraat C, Vallerga CL, Heilbron K, Bandres-Ciga S, Chang D, Tan M, Kia DA, Noyce AJ, Xue A, Bras J, Young E, von Coelln R, Simón-Sánchez J, Schulte C, Sharma M, Krohn L, Pihlstrom L, Siitonen A, Iwaki H, Leonard H, Faghri F, Gibbs JR, Hernandez DG, Scholz SW, Botia JA, Martinez M, Corvol JC, Lesage S, Jankovic J, Shulman LM, The 23andMe Research Team, System Genomics of Parkinson’s Disease (SGPD) Consortium, Sutherland M, Tienari P, Majamaa K, Toft M, Brice A, Yang J, Gan-Or Z, Gasser T, Heutink P, Shulman JM, Wood N, Hinds DA, Hardy J, Morris HR, Gratten J, Visscher PM, Graham RR, Singleton AB, for the International Parkinson’s Disease Genomics Consortium. Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson’s disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. Lancet Neurology. 2019. PubMedPreprint

The Parkinson’s Disease Mendelian Randomization Research Portal. 

Noyce A, Bandres Ciga S, Kim J, Heilbron K, kia D, Hemani G, Xue A, Lawlor DA, Smith GD, Duran R, Gan-Or Z, Blauwendraat C, Gibbs R, 23andMe, International Parkinson’s Disease Genomics Consortium, Hinds D, Yang P, Visscher PM, Cuzick J, Morris H, Hardy J, Wood N, Nalls MA and Singleton AB. The Parkinson’s Disease Mendelian Randomization Research Portal. Movement Disorders. 2019. PubMedPreprint

Revisiting Protein Aggregation as Pathogenic in Sporadic Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Diseases.

Espay AJ, Vizcarra JA, Marsili L, Lang AE, Simon DK, Merola A, Josephs KA, Fasano A, Morgante F, Savica R, Greenamyre T, Cambi F, Yamasaki TR, Tanner CM, Gan-Or Z, Litvan I, Mata IF, Zabetian CP, Brundin P, Fernandez HH, Standaert DG, Kauffman MA, Sherer T, Perry G and Leverenz JB. Revisiting Protein Aggregation as Pathogenic in Sporadic Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s DiseasesNeurology. 2019. PubMed

Neurodegenerative Risk and Predictors of Outcome in Idiopathic REM sleep Behavior Disorder: A Prospective Multicenter study. 

Postuma RB, Iranzo A, Hu M, Högl B, Boeve B, Manni R, Oertel W, Arnulf I, Ferini-Strambi L, Puligheddu M, Antelmi E, De Cock VC, Arnaldi D, Mollenhauer B, Videnovic A, Sonka K, Jung KY, Kunz D, Dauvilliers Y, Provini F, Lewis SJ, Buskova J, Pavlova M, Heidbreder A, Montplaisir JY,Santamaria J, Barber TR, Stefani A, St-Louis E, Terzaghi M, Janzen A, Leu-Semenescu S, Plazzi G, Nobili F, Sixel-Doering F, Dusek P, Bes E, Cortelli P, Martens KE, Gagnon JF, Gaig C, Zucconi M, Trenkwalder C, Gan-Or Z, Lo C, Rolinski M, Mahlknecht P, Holzknecht E, Toscano G, Mayer G, Morbelli S, Dawson B, Pelletier A and the International REM sleep Behavior Disorder Study Group. Neurodegenerative Risk and Predictors of Outcome in Idiopathic REM sleep Behavior Disorder: A Prospective Multicenter studyBrain. 2019. PubMed

Alcalay RN, Mallett V, Vanderperre B, Tavassoly O, Dauvilliers Y, Wu YJRRuskey JA, Leblond CS, Ambalavanan A, Laurent SB, Spiegelman D, Dionne-Laporte A, Liong C, Levy OA, Fahn S, Waters C, Kuo SH, Chung WK, Ford B, Marder KS, Kang UJ, Hassin-Baer S, Greenbaum L, Trempe JF, Wolf P, Oliva P, Zhang XK, Clark LN, Langlois M, Dion PA, Fon EA, Dupre N, Rouleau GA and Gan-Or ZSMPD1 mutations, activity and a-synuclein accumulation in Parkinson’s diseaseMovement Disorders. 2019. PubMed

Truncating Mutations in UBAP1 Cause Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia. 

Farazi Fard MA, Rebelo AP, Buglo B, Nemati H, Dastsooz H, Gehweiler I, Reich S, Reichbauer J, Quintáns B, Ordóñez-Ugalde A, Cortese A, Courel S, Abreu L, Powell E, Danzi M, Martuscelli NB, Bis-Brewer DM, Tao F, Zarei F, Habibzadeh P, Yavarian M, Modarresi F, Silawi M, Tabatabaei Z, Yousefi M, Farpour HR, Kessler C, Mangold E, Kobeleva X, Mueller AJ, Haack TB, Tarnopolsky M, Gan-Or Z, Rouleau GA, Synofzik M, Sobrido MJ, Jordanova A, Schüle R, Zuchner S and Faghihi MA. Truncating Mutations in UBAP1 Cause Hereditary Spastic ParaplegiaAmerican Journal of Human Genetics. 2019. PubMed