Genome-wide association study in essential tremor identifies three new loci

Essential tremor has a high heritability, but its molecular genetic determinants remain unknown. Müller et al. conduct a genome-wide association study in more than 2800 patients with essential tremor and more than 6800 controls of European descent, and identify three new loci associated with the disease.

Dietrich Haubenberger | Mark Hallett | Günther Deuschl | Wolfgang Lieb | Owen A. Ross | Alexandra I. Soto-Ortolaza | Susanne A. Schneider | Daniela Berg | Klaus Seppi | Konstantin Strauch | Werner Poewe | Elan D. Louis | Ronald B. Postuma | Guy A. Rouleau | Michel Panisset | Sylvain Chouinard | Thomas Arzberger | Joshua M. Shulman | Gregor Kuhlenbäumer | Zbigniew K. Wszolek | Geneviève Bernard | Pau Pastor | Nicolas Dupré | Joseph Jankovic | Karl-Heinz Ladwig | Lukas Tittmann | Kirsten E. Zeuner | M. Hallett | J. Jankovic | G. Deuschl | K. Strauch | S. Klebe | D. Lorenz | W. Poewe | W. Lieb | J. Shulman | R. Postuma | S. Schneider | D. Berg | P. Pástor | Z. Wszolek | Manuela Pendziwiat | A. Rajput | A. Rajput | T. Arzberger | J. Winkelmann | E. Louis | K. Zeuner | K. Seppi | G. Rouleau | E. Reischl | L. Clark | M. Panisset | I. Wurster | G. Kuhlenbäumer | S. Chouinard | S. Girard | K. Ladwig | P. Dion | N. Merner | Cynthia V. Bourassa | N. Dupré | G. Bernard | K. Srulijes | O. Ross | F. Hopfner | D. Haubenberger | C. Hodgkinson | S. Ortega-Cubero | C. Testa | L. Tittmann | Anna Hussl | Juliane Winkelmann | C. Vilariño-Güell | A. Soto-Ortolaza | Stefanie H. Müller | Simon L. Girard | Franziska Hopfner | Nancy D. Merner | Delia Lorenz | Lorraine N. Clark | Stephan Klebe | Colin A. Hodgkinson | Manuela Pendziwiat | Oswaldo Lorenzo-Betancor | Sara Ortega-Cubero | Alex Rajput | Ali H. Rajput | Patrick A. Dion | Isabel Wurster | Karin Srulijes | Carles Vilariño-Güell | Claudia M. Testa | Eva Reischl | Stefanie H Müller | O. Lorenzo‐Betancor | A. Hussl | Oswaldo Lorenzo-Betancor | P. Pastor

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