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HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 124, Issue 1, Pages 89-94Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-008-0525-5
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Parkinson's disease (PD), one of the most common human neurodegenerative disorders, is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. Our recent case- control association study of 268 SNPs in 121 candidate genes identified alpha-synuclein ( SNCA) as a susceptibility gene for sporadic PD (P = 1.7 x 10(-11)). We also replicated the association of fibroblast growth factor 20 ( FGF20) with PD ( P = 0.0089). To find other susceptibility genes, we added 34 SNPs to the previous screen. Of 302 SNPs in a total 137 genes, but excluding SNCA, SNPs in NDUFV2, FGF2, CALB1 and B2M showed significant association ( P < 0.01; 882 cases and 938 control subjects). We replicated the association analysis for these SNPs in a second independent sample set ( 521 cases and 1,003 control subjects). One SNP, rs1805874 in calbindin 1 ( CALB1), showed significance in both analyses ( P = 7.1 x 10(-5); recessive model). When the analysis was stratified relative to the SNCA genotype, the odds ratio of CALB1 tended to increase according to the number of protective alleles in SNCA. In contrast, FGF20 was significant only in the subgroup of SNCA homozygote of risk allele. CALB1 is a calcium-binding protein that widely is expressed in neurons. A relative sparing of
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