Evaluation of novel Parkinson's disease candidate genes in the Chinese population

• Main Authors: Chew, Elaine Guo Yan, Liany, Herty, Tan, Louis C.S., Au, Wing-Lok, Prakash, Kumar-M., Annuar, Azlina Ahmad, Chan, Anne Y.Y., Lim, Shen Yang, Mok, Vincent, Chung, Sun Ju, Song, Kyuyoung, Liu, Jianjun, Foo, Jia Nee, Tan, Eng-King
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/20094/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.09.013
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Recent whole-exome sequencing studies in European patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have identified potential risk variants across 33 novel PD candidate genes. We aim to determine if these reported candidate genes are similarly implicated in Asians by assessing common, rare, and novel nons...