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GBA-associated Parkinson’s disease and other synucleinopathies. 

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

Analysis of loss of function variants reveals that LRRK2 haploinsufficiency is not a cause of Parkinson’s Disease.

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

Increased yield of full GBA sequencing in Ashkenazi Jews with Parkinson’s disease. 

Ruskey JA, Greenbaum L, Roncière LAlam 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-OrIncreased yield of full GBA sequencing in Ashkenazi Jews with Parkinson’s disease. European Journal of Medical Genetics. 2018. PubMed

Parkinson’s disease phenotype is influenced by the mutation in the GBA gene.

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

Longstanding disease-free survival in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder: Is neurodegeneration inevitable? 

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

Full sequencing and haplotype analysis of MAPT in Parkinson disease and REM sleep behavior disorder

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 ZFull sequencing and haplotype analysis of MAPT in Parkinson disease and REM sleep behavior disorder. Movement Disorders. 2018; PubMed

LRRK2 protective haplotype and full sequencing study in REM sleep behavior disorder.

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 ZLRRK2 protective haplotype and full sequencing study in REM sleep behavior disorder. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 2018 PubMed

Genome-wide association analysis identifies new candidate risk loci for familial intracranial aneurysms in the French-Canadian population.

Zhou S, Gan-Or Z, Ambalavanan A, Xie P, Bourassa CV, Strong S, Ross JP, Dionne-Laporte A, Spiegelman D, Dupré N, Xiong L, Dion PA and Rouleau GA. Genome-wide association analysis identifies new candidate risk loci for familial intracranial aneurysms in the French-Canadian population. Scientific Reports. 2018. PubMed

Sleep disorders and Parkinson disease; lessons from genetics.

Gan-Or Z, Alcalay RN, Rouleau GA and Postuma RB. Sleep disorders and Parkinson disease; lessons from genetics. Sleep Medicine Reviews. 2018. Review. PubMed

Alpha galactosidase A activity in Parkinson’s disease. 

Alcalay RN, Wolf P, Levy O, Kang UJ, Waters C, Fahn S, Ford B, Kuo SH, Vanegas N, Shah I, Liong C, Narayan S, Pauciulo M, Nichols W, Gan-Or Z, Rouleau G, Chung W, Oliva P, Keutzer J, Marder K and Zhang X. Alpha galactosidase A activity in Parkinson’s disease. Neurobiology of Disease. 2018; PubMed