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Investigation of Autosomal Genetic Sex Differences in Parkinson's disease

Blauwendraat, C; Iwaki, H; Makarious, MB; Bandres-Ciga, S; Leonard, H; Grenn, FP; Lake, J; ... Lynch, TL; + view all (2021) Investigation of Autosomal Genetic Sex Differences in Parkinson's disease. Annals of Neurology , 90 (1) pp. 35-42. 10.1002/ana.26090. Green open access

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder. Males are on average ~ 1.5 times more likely to develop PD compared to females with European ancestry. Over the years genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous genetic risk factors for PD, however it is unclear whether genetics contribute to disease etiology in a sex-specific manner. METHODS: In an effort to study sex-specific genetic factors associated with PD, we explored two large genetic datasets from the International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium and the UK Biobank consisting of 13,020 male PD cases, 7,936 paternal proxy cases, 89,660 male controls, 7,947 female PD cases, 5,473 maternal proxy cases and 90,662 female controls. We performed GWAS meta-analyses to identify distinct patterns of genetic risk contributing to disease in male versus female PD cases. RESULTS: In total 19 genome-wide significant regions were identified and no sex-specific effects were observed. A high genetic correlation between the male and female PD GWASes was identified (rg = 0.877) and heritability estimates were identical between male and female PD cases (~20%). INTERPRETATION: We did not detect any significant genetic differences between male or female PD cases. Our study does not support the notion that common genetic variation on the autosomes could explain the difference in prevalence of PD between males and females at least when considering the current sample size under study. Further studies are warranted to investigate the genetic architecture of PD explained by X and Y chromosomes and further evaluate environmental effects that could potentially contribute to PD etiology in male versus females. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Type: Article
Title: Investigation of Autosomal Genetic Sex Differences in Parkinson's disease
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/ana.26090
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26090
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Annals of Neurology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Neurological Association. This article has been contributed to by US Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
Keywords: GWAS, Parkinson's disease, autosomes, genetics, sex
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10127223
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