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GBA mutations are among the most common genetic risk factors for Parkinson disease (PD) worldwide. We aimed to identify genetic modifiers of the age at onset (AAO) in GBA-associated PD. The study included a genome-wide discovery phase, including a cohort of 79 patients with the GBA p.N370S mutation, and candidate validation and replication analyses of 8 SNPs in patients with mild (n = 113) and severe (n = 41) GBA mutations. Genotyping was performed using the Affymetrix human SNP 6.0 array and TaqMan assays. In the genome-wide phase, none of the SNPs passed the genome-wide significance threshold. Eight SNPs were selected for further analysis from the top hits. In all GBA-associated PD patients (n = 153), the BIN1 rs13403026 minor allele was associated with an older AAO (12.4 ± 5.9 years later, p = 0.0001), compared to patients homozygous for the major allele. Furthermore, the AAO was 10.7 ± 6.8 years later in patients with mild GBA mutations, (p = 0.005, validation group), and 17.1 ± 2.5 years later in patients with severe GBA mutations (p = 0.01, replication). Our results suggest that alterations in the BIN1 locus, previously associated with Alzheimer disease, may modify the AAO of GBA-associated PD. More studies in other populations are required to examine the role of BIN1-related variants in GBA-associated PD.
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This work was supported by Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Grant of Excellence, by the Kahn Foundation, by the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Health (Grant No. 3-4893), by the Legacy Heritage Biomedical Science Partnership Program of the Israel Science Foundation (Grant No.1922/08), and by the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
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Gan-Or, Z., Amshalom, I., Bar-Shira, A. et al. The Alzheimer disease BIN1 locus as a modifier of GBA-associated Parkinson disease. J Neurol 262, 2443–2447 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-015-7868-3
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