Prioritization of candidate genes for a South African family with Parkinson’s disease using in-silico tools

• Boiketlo Sebate ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Boiketlo Sebate, Katelyn Cuttler

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Katelyn Cuttler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Boiketlo Sebate, Katelyn Cuttler

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1833-5426

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• Ruben Cloete ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sbardien@sun.ac.za (SB); ruben@sanbi.ac.za (RC)

  Affiliation South African Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Unit, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1966-0212

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• Marcell Britz,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Greenacres Medical Centre, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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• Alan Christoffels,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South African Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Unit, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Monique Williams,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, NRF/DST Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Jonathan Carr,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Soraya Bardien

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sbardien@sun.ac.za (SB); ruben@sanbi.ac.za (RC)

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3508-3438

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