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Rudakou U, Ouled Amar Bencheikh B, Ruskey JA, Krohn L, Laurent SB, Spiegelman D, Liong C, Fahn S, Waters C, Monchi O, Fon EA, Dauvilliers Y, Alcalay RN, Dupré N and Gan-Or Z. Common and rare GCH1 variants are associated with Parkinson disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 2018. PubMed

Ouled Amar Bencheikh B, Leveille E, Ruskey JA, Spiegelman D, Liong C, Fon EA, Rouleau GA, Dauvilliers Y, Dupre N, Alcalay RN and Gan-Or Z. Sequencing of the GBA co-activator, Saposin C, in Parkinson disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 2018. PubMed

Ruskey JA, Zhou S, Santiago R, Franche LA, Alam A, Foncière L, Spiegelman D, Fon EA, Trempe JF, Kalia LV, Postuma RB, Dupre N, Rivard GE, Assouline S, Amato D and Gan-Or Z. The GBA p.Trp378Gly mutation is a founder French-Canadian mutation causing Gaucher disease and synucleinopathies. Clinical genetics. 2018. PubMed

Gan-Or Z, Liong C and Alcalay RN. GBA-associated Parkinson’s disease and other synucleinopathies.  Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 2018. Review. PubMed

Blauwendraat C, Reed X, Kia DA, Gan-Or Z, Lesage S, Pihlstrom L, Gibbs RJ, Sabir M, Ahmed S, Ding J, Alcalay RN, Hassin-Baer S, Pittman AM, Brooks J, Edsall C, Hernandez D, Chung SJ, Goldwurm S, Toft M, Schulte C, International Parkinson’s Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC), COURAGE-PD Consortium, Wood NW, Brice A, Morris HR, Scholz SW, Nalls MA, Singleton AB and Cookson MR. Analysis of loss of function variants reveals that LRRK2 haploinsufficiency is not a cause of Parkinson’s Disease. JAMA Neurology. 2018. PubMed

Ruskey JA, Greenbaum L, Roncière L, Alam A, Spiegelman D, Liong C, Levy OA, Waters C, Fahn S, Marder KS, Chung W, Yahalom G, Israeli-Korn S, Livneh V, Fay-Karmon T, Alcalay RN, Hassin-Baer S and Ziv Gan-Or. Increased yield of full GBA sequencing in Ashkenazi Jews with Parkinson’s disease. European Journal of Medical Genetics. 2018. PubMed

Thaler A, Bregman N, Gurevich T, Shiner T, Dror Y, Zmira O, Gan-Or Z, Orr-Urtreger A, Giladi N and Mirelman A. Parkinson’s disease phenotype is influenced by the mutation in the GBA gene. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 2018. PubMed

Yao C, Fereshtehnejad SM, Dawson BK, Pelletier A, Gan-Or Z, Gagnon JF, Montplaisir JY, and Postuma RB. Longstanding disease-free survival in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder: Is neurodegeneration inevitable? Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 2018. PubMed

Li J, Ruskey JA, Arnulf I, Dauvilliers Y, Hu MTM, Högl B, Leblond CS, Zhou S, AmbalavananA, Ross JP, Bourassa CV, Spiegelman D, Laurent SB, Stefani A, Charley Monaca C, Cochen De Cock V, Boivin M, Ferini-Strambi L, Plazzi G, Antelmi E, Young P, Heidbreder A, Labbe C, Ferman TJ, Dion PA, Fan D, Desautels A, Gagnon JF, Dupré N, Fon EA, Montplaisir JY, Boeve BF, Postuma RB, Rouleau GA, Ross OA and Gan-Or Z. Full sequencing and haplotype analysis of MAPT in Parkinson disease and REM sleep behavior disorder. Movement Disorders. 2018; PubMed

Ouled Amar Bencheikh B, Ruskey JA, Arnulf I, Dauvilliers Y, Charley Monaca C, Cochen De Cock V, Gagnon JF, Spiegelman D, Hu MTM, Högl B, Stefani A, Ferini-Strambi L, Plazzi G, Antelmi E, Young P, Heidbreder A, Mollenhauer B, Sixel-Döring F, Trenkwalder C, Oertel W, Montplaisir JY, Postuma RB, Rouleau GA and Gan-Or Z. LRRK2 protective haplotype and full sequencing study in REM sleep behavior disorder. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 2018 PubMed