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SUBMITTER: Desikan RS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4539304 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Desikan R S RS Schork A J AJ Wang Y Y Witoelar A A Sharma M M McEvoy L K LK Holland D D Brewer J B JB Chen C-H CH Thompson W K WK Harold D D Williams J J Owen M J MJ O'Donovan M C MC Pericak-Vance M A MA Mayeux R R Haines J L JL Farrer L A LA Schellenberg G D GD Heutink P P Singleton A B AB Brice A A Wood N W NW Hardy J J Martinez M M Choi S H SH DeStefano A A Ikram M A MA Bis J C JC Smith A A Fitzpatrick A L AL Launer L L van Duijn C C Seshadri S S Ulstein I D ID Aarsland D D Fladby T T Djurovic S S Hyman B T BT Snaedal J J Stefansson H H Stefansson K K Gasser T T Andreassen O A OA Dale A M AM
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We investigated the genetic overlap between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). Using summary statistics (P-values) from large recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) (total n=89 904 individuals), we sought to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associating with both AD and PD. We found and replicated association of both AD and PD with the A allele of rs393152 within the extended MAPT region on chromosome 17 (meta analysis P-value across five independent AD c ...[more]