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Large-scale exploratory genetic analysis of cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease

Journal

NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 56, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.04.009

Keywords

Parkinson's disease; NeuroX; Cognitive impairment; Genetics

Funding

  1. National Institutes of Health [P50 NS038367, P50 NS053488, P50 NS062684, R01 ES010544, R01 NS065070]
  2. Consolidated Anti-Aging Foundation
  3. Dolsen Foundation
  4. Nancy and Buster Alvord Endowment
  5. Sartain Lanier Family Foundation
  6. Office of Research and Development Medical Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs

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Cognitive impairment is a common and disabling problem in Parkinson's disease (PD). Identification of genetic variants that influence the presence or severity of cognitive deficits in PD might provide a clearer understanding of the pathophysiology underlying this important nonmotor feature. We genotyped 1105 PD patients from the PD Cognitive Genetics Consortium for 249,336 variants using the NeuroX array. Participants underwent assessments of learning and memory (Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised [HVLT-R]), working memory/executive function (LetterNumber Sequencing and Trail Making Test [TMT] A and B), language processing (semantic and phonemic verbal fluency), visuospatial abilities (Benton Judgment of Line Orientation [JoLO]), and global cognitive function (Montreal Cognitive Assessment). For common variants, we used linear regression to test for association between genotype and cognitive performance with adjustment for important covariates. Rare variants were analyzed using the optimal unified sequence kernel association test. The significance threshold was defined as a false discovery rate-corrected p-alue (P-FDR) of 0.05. Eighteen common variants in 13 genomic regions exceeded the significance threshold for one of the cognitive tests. These included GBA rs2230288 (E326K; PFDR = 2.7 x 10(-4)) for JoLO, PARP4 rs9318600 (P-FDR = 0.006), and rs9581094 (PFDR = 0.006) for HVLT-R total recall, and MTCL1 rs34877994 (P-FDR = 0.01) for TMT B-A. Analysis of rare variants did not yield any significant gene regions. We have conducted the first large-scale PD cognitive genetics analysis and nominated several new putative susceptibility genes for cognitive impairment in PD. These results will require replication in independent PD cohorts. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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