DESCRIPTION:

List of positional candidate genes after correcting for multiple testing and controlling the false discovery rate from genome wide association studies (GWAS) retrieved from the NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/). The disease/trait examined in this study, as reported by the authors, was Essential tremor. The EFO term essential tremor was annotated to this set after curation by NHGRI-EBI. Intergenic SNPS were mapped to both the upstream and downstream gene. P-value uploaded. This gene set was generated using gwas2gs v. 0.1.8 and the GWAS Catalog v. 1.0.1.

LABEL:

GWAS: essential tremor

SCORE TYPE:

P-Value

DATE ADDED:

2017-05-02

DATE UPDATED:

2024-04-25

SPECIES:

AUTHORS:

SH Müller, SL Girard, F Hopfner, ND Merner, CV Bourassa, D Lorenz, LN Clark, L Tittmann, AI Soto-Ortolaza, S Klebe, M Hallett, SA Schneider, CA Hodgkinson, W Lieb, ZK Wszolek, M Pendziwiat, O Lorenzo-Betancor, W Poewe, S Ortega-Cubero, K Seppi, A Rajput, A Hussl, AH Rajput, D Berg, PA Dion, I Wurster, JM Shulman, K Srulijes, D Haubenberger, P Pastor, C Vilariño-Güell, RB Postuma, G Bernard, KH Ladwig, N Dupré, J Jankovic, K Strauch, M Panisset, J Winkelmann, CM Testa, E Reischl, KE Zeuner, OA Ross, T Arzberger, S Chouinard, G Deuschl, ED Louis, G Kuhlenbäumer, GA Rouleau

TITLE:

Genome-wide association study in essential tremor identifies three new loci.

JOURNAL:

Brain : a journal of neurology Dec 2016, Vol 139, pp. 3163-3169

ABSTRACT:

We conducted a genome-wide association study of essential tremor, a common movement disorder characterized mainly by a postural and kinetic tremor of the upper extremities. Twin and family history studies show a high heritability for essential tremor. The molecular genetic determinants of essential tremor are unknown. We included 2807 patients and 6441 controls of European descent in our two-stage genome-wide association study. The 59 most significantly disease-associated markers of the discovery stage were genotyped in the replication stage. After Bonferroni correction two markers, one (rs10937625) located in the serine/threonine kinase STK32B and one (rs17590046) in the transcriptional coactivator PPARGC1A were associated with essential tremor. Three markers (rs12764057, rs10822974, rs7903491) in the cell-adhesion molecule CTNNA3 were significant in the combined analysis of both stages. The expression of STK32B was increased in the cerebellar cortex of patients and expression quantitative trait loci database mining showed association between the protective minor allele of rs10937625 and reduced expression in cerebellar cortex. We found no expression differences related to disease status or marker genotype for the other two genes. Replication of two lead single nucleotide polymorphisms of previous small genome-wide association studies (rs3794087 in SLC1A2, rs9652490 in LINGO1) did not confirm the association with essential tremor. PUBMED: 27797806
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