@article {6789, title = {Large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies six new risk loci for Parkinson{\textquoteright}s disease.}, journal = {Nat Genet}, volume = {46}, year = {2014}, month = {2014 Sep}, pages = {989-93}, abstract = {

We conducted a meta-analysis of Parkinson{\textquoteright}s disease genome-wide association studies using a common set of 7,893,274 variants across 13,708 cases and 95,282 controls. Twenty-six loci were identified as having genome-wide significant association; these and 6 additional previously reported loci were then tested in an independent set of 5,353 cases and 5,551 controls. Of the 32 tested SNPs, 24 replicated, including 6 newly identified loci. Conditional analyses within loci showed that four loci, including GBA, GAK-DGKQ, SNCA and the HLA region, contain a secondary independent risk variant. In total, we identified and replicated 28 independent risk variants for Parkinson{\textquoteright}s disease across 24 loci. Although the effect of each individual locus was small, risk profile analysis showed substantial cumulative risk in a comparison of the highest and lowest quintiles of genetic risk (odds ratio (OR) = 3.31, 95\% confidence interval (CI) = 2.55-4.30; P = 2 {\texttimes} 10(-16)). We also show six risk loci associated with proximal gene expression or DNA methylation.

}, keywords = {Case-Control Studies, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Parkinson Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors}, issn = {1546-1718}, doi = {10.1038/ng.3043}, author = {Nalls, Mike A and Pankratz, Nathan and Lill, Christina M and Do, Chuong B and Hernandez, Dena G and Saad, Mohamad and DeStefano, Anita L and Kara, Eleanna and Bras, Jose and Sharma, Manu and Schulte, Claudia and Keller, Margaux F and Arepalli, Sampath and Letson, Christopher and Edsall, Connor and Stefansson, Hreinn and Liu, Xinmin and Pliner, Hannah and Lee, Joseph H and Cheng, Rong and Ikram, M Arfan and Ioannidis, John P A and Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios M and Bis, Joshua C and Martinez, Maria and Perlmutter, Joel S and Goate, Alison and Marder, Karen and Fiske, Brian and Sutherland, Margaret and Xiromerisiou, Georgia and Myers, Richard H and Clark, Lorraine N and Stefansson, Kari and Hardy, John A and Heutink, Peter and Chen, Honglei and Wood, Nicholas W and Houlden, Henry and Payami, Haydeh and Brice, Alexis and Scott, William K and Gasser, Thomas and Bertram, Lars and Eriksson, Nicholas and Foroud, Tatiana and Singleton, Andrew B} }