About the Authors
- Irene Pichler
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Contributed equally to this work with: Irene Pichler, Fabiola Del Greco M.
* E-mail: irene.pichler@eurac.edu (IP); cosetta.minelli@imperial.ac.uk (CM)
Affiliation Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Fabiola Del Greco M.
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Contributed equally to this work with: Irene Pichler, Fabiola Del Greco M.
Affiliation Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Martin Gögele
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Affiliation Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Christina M. Lill
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Affiliations Neuropsychiatric Genetics Group, Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, Department of Neurology, Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
- Lars Bertram
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Affiliation Neuropsychiatric Genetics Group, Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- Chuong B. Do
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Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America
- Nicholas Eriksson
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Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America
- Tatiana Foroud
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Affiliation Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
- Richard H. Myers
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- PD GWAS Consortium
- Michael Nalls
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Affiliation Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Margaux F. Keller
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Affiliations Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biological Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium
- Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2
- Beben Benyamin
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Affiliations Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
- John B. Whitfield
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Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Genetics of Iron Status Consortium
- Peter P. Pramstaller
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Affiliations Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Department of Neurology, General Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Andrew A. Hicks
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Affiliation Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- John R. Thompson
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Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Cosetta Minelli
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* E-mail: irene.pichler@eurac.edu (IP); cosetta.minelli@imperial.ac.uk (CM)
Affiliation Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
CM is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine. NE and CBD are or have been employed by 23andMe and own stock options in the company. TF serves on Research Competitiveness Program for the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Study Sections, Review Panels, Board of Scientific Counselors for NIH; Scientific Advisory Board for University of Colorado; and the NIA's Long Life Family Study Observational Study Monitoring Board. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
¶ Membership of the PD GWAS Consortium, the International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium, the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2, and the Genetics of Iron Status Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments
Conceived and designed the experiments: CM IP FDM. Analyzed the data: FDM CM MG. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: IP CM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CM AAH JT. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: IP FDM MG CML LB CBD NE TF RHM MN MFK BB JBW PPP AAH JT CM. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: IP FDM MG CML LB CBD NE TF RHM MN MFK BB JBW PPP AAH JT CM. Contributed data: CML LB CBD NE TF RHM MN MFK BB JBW PPP.