Journal
NEUROGENETICS
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 55-64Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10048-014-0425-x
Keywords
Parkinson's disease; Genetic-isolated population; Sardinia; Whole-exome sequencing; Goldilocks alleles; PD candidate risk genes
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- BGI-Shenzhen, China
- Stichting ParkinsonFonds-The Netherlands and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, VIDI grant) [91786395]
- TELETHON Italy [GTB12001]
- Fondazione Grigioni per il Morbo di Parkinson
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder of complex aetiology. Rare, highly penetrant PD-causing mutations and common risk factors of small effect size have been identified in several genes/loci. However, these mutations and risk factors only explain a fraction of the disease burden, suggesting that additional, substantial genetic determinants remain to be found. Genetically isolated populations offer advantages for dissecting the genetic architecture of complex disorders, such as PD. We performed exome sequencing in 100 unrelated PD patients from Sardinia, a genetic isolate. SNPs absent from dbSNP129 and 1000 Genomes, shared by at least five patients, and of functional effects were genotyped in an independent Sardinian case-control sample (n = 500). Variants associated with PD with nominal p value < 0.05 and those with odds ratio (OR) a parts per thousand yen3 were validated by Sanger sequencing and typed in a replication sample of 2965 patients and 2678 controls from Italy, Spain, and Portugal. We identified novel moderately rare variants in several genes, including SCAPER, HYDIN, UBE2H, EZR, MMRN2 and OGFOD1 that were specifically present in PD patients or enriched among them, nominating these as novel candidate risk genes for PD, although no variants achieved genome-wide significance after Bonferroni correction. Our results suggest that the genetic bases of PD are highly heterogeneous, with implications for the design of future large-scale exome or whole-genome analyses of this disease.
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