Epidemiological studies have estimated a cumulative prevalence of PD of greater than 1 per thousand. When prevalence is
limited to senior populations, this proportion increases nearly 10-fold. The estimated genetic risk ratio for PD is
approximately 1.7 (70% increased risk for PD if a sibling...
Genome-wide association scan was performed in 1,705 cases of parkinson's genotyped on the Illumina Human 660W SNP array, and 5,175 controls genotyped on the Illumina1.2M-Duo. Analysis was carried out on the overlaps set of SNPs.
