The Luxembourg Parkinson's Study: A Comprehensive Approach for Stratification and Early Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT: While genetic advances have successfully defined part of the complexity in Parkinson's disease (PD), the clinical characterization of phenotypes remains challenging. Therapeutic trials and cohort studies typically include patients with earlier disease stages and exclude comorbidities, thus ignoring a substantial part of the real-world PD population. To account for these limitations, we implemented the Luxembourg PD study as a comprehensive clinical, molecular and device-based approach including patients with typical PD and atypical parkinsonism, irrespective of their disease stage, age, comorbidities, or linguistic background. To provide a large, longitudinally followed, and deeply phenotyped set of patients and controls for clinical and fundamental research on PD, we implemented an open-s

SUBMITTER: Hipp G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6216083 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature