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Population-scale burden analysis of rare damaging coding variants identifies novel risk genes for Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease

2026-03-04 neurology Title + abstract only
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Alzheimers disease and related dementias (ADRD)1 and Parkinsons disease and related disorders (PDRD)2 have substantial genetic contributions, yet the role of rare damaging coding variants remains incompletely characterized at population scale3-6. We performed gene-based burden testing of rare loss-of-function and deleterious missense variants using whole-genome sequencing data from large population biobanks combined with disease-specific sequencing cohorts, leveraging proxy phenotypes to maximiz...

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