Yong-Ping Chen, Shi-Hui Yu, Guo-Hui Zhang, Yan-Bing Hou, Xiao-Jing Gu, Ru-Wei Ou, Ying Shen, Wei Song, Xue-Ping Chen, Bi Zhao, Bei Cao, Ling-Yu Zhang, Ming-Ming Sun, Fei-Fei Liu, Qian-Qian Wei, Kun-Cheng Liu, Jun-Yu Lin, Tian-Mi Yang, Jing Yang, Ying Wu, Zheng Jiang, Jiao Liu, Yang-Fan Cheng, Yi Xiao, Wei-Ming Su, Fei Feng, Ying-Ying Cai, Shi-Rong Li, Tao Hu, Xiao-Qin Yuan, Qing-Qing Zhou, Na Shao, Sha Ma, Hui-Fang Shang
BACKGROUND: Recent genetic progress has shown many causative/risk genes linked to Parkinson's disease (PD), mainly in patients of European ancestry. The study aimed to investigate the PD-related genes and determine the mutational spectrum of early-onset PD in ethnic Chinese. METHODS: In this study, whole-exome sequencing and/or gene dosage analysis were performed in 704 early-onset PD (EOPD) patients (onset age ≤ 45 years) and 1866 controls. Twenty-six PD-related genes and 20 other genes linked to neurodegenerative and lysosome diseases were analyzed...
July 21, 2022: European Journal of Neurology