Wednesday 13 May 2015

Our new letter in Movement Disorders - GBA variants in PREDICT-PD

This was cut down from a brief report because we only had data on the first ~185 subjects. In brief, we show that those deemed to be at higher risk, according to early non-motor features and risk factors, were significantly more likely to carry variants in the GBA gene compared to those at lower risk. This supports the notion that the algorithm enriches for Parkinson's risk.

Letter is Open Access and available via the link below: 
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mds.26249/abstract

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