Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Author "Factor, Stewart A."

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    • Identification of genetic modifiers of age-at-onset for familial Parkinson’s disease 

      Hill-Burns, Erin M.; Ross, Owen A.; Wissemann, William T.; Soto-Ortolaza, Alexandra I.; Zareparsi, Sepideh; Siuda, Joanna; Lynch, Timothy; Wszolek, Zbigniew K.; Silburn, Peter A.; Mellick, George D.; Ritz, Beate; Scherzer, Clemens R.; Zabetian, Cyrus P.; Factor, Stewart A.; Breheny, Patrick J.; Payami, Haydeh (Oxford University Press, 2016)
      Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the most common cause of neurodegenerative movement disorder and the second most common cause of dementia. Genes are thought to have a stronger effect on age-at-onset of PD than on risk, yet ...

    • The RAB39B p.G192R mutation causes X-linked dominant Parkinson’s disease 

      Mata, Ignacio F.; Jang, Yongwoo; Kim, Chun-Hyung; Hanna, David S.; Dorschner, Michael O.; Samii, Ali; Agarwal, Pinky; Roberts, John W.; Klepitskaya, Olga; Shprecher, David R.; Chung, Kathryn A.; Factor, Stewart A.; Espay, Alberto J.; Revilla, Fredy J.; Higgins, Donald S.; Litvan, Irene; Leverenz, James B.; Yearout, Dora; Inca-Martinez, Miguel; Martinez, Erica; Thompson, Tiffany R.; Cholerton, Brenna A.; Hu, Shu-Ching; Edwards, Karen L.; Kim, Kwang-Soo; Zabetian, Cyrus P. (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Objective: To identify the causal gene in a multi-incident U.S. kindred with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Methods: We characterized a family with a classical PD phenotype in which 7 individuals (5 males and 2 females) were ...