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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2021

Polygenic Risk Scores Contribute to Personalized Medicine of Parkinson's Disease.

Mohammad Dehestani, Hui Liu, Thomas Gasser

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Parkinson's Disease is Predominantly a Genetic Disease.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2024
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  16. Genetic Testing of Movements Disorders: A Review of Clinical Utility.Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2024
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  18. Parkinson's disease therapy: what lies ahead?Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mohammad DehestaniDepartment of Neurodegenerative Disease, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
Hui LiuDepartment of Neurodegenerative Disease, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5308-0874
Thomas GasserDepartment of Neurodegenerative Disease, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons. The vast majority of PD patients develop the disease sporadically and it is assumed that the cause lies in polygenic and environmental components. The overall polygenic risk is the result of a large number of common low-risk variants discovered by large genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Polygenic risk scores (PRS), generated by compiling genome-wide significant variants, are a useful prognostic tool that quantifies the cumulative effect of genetic risk in a patient and in this way helps to identify high-risk patients. Although there are limitations to the construction and application of PRS, such as considerations of limited genetic underpinning of diseases explained by SNPs and generalizability of PRS to other populations, this personalized risk prediction could make a promising contribution to stratified medicine and tailored therapeutic interventions in the future.

Indexed as

Parkinson’s diseasepersonalized medicinepolygenic risk scores

Identifiers

PMID34683174
PMCPMC8539098
OpenAlexW3207494555

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