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ArticleBrain : a journal of neurology2020

Lack of evidence for genetic association of saposins A, B, C and D with Parkinson's disease.

Yuri Ludwig Sosero, Sara Bandres-Ciga, Sharon Hassin-Baer, Roy N Alcalay, Ziv Gan-Or, International Parkinson’s Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC)

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Article in Brain : a journal of neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Prosaposin in CNS health and disease, metabolic stress and exercise adaptation.Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2026
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  4. International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  6. Sphingolipids in neurodegenerative diseases.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Yuri Ludwig SoseroDepartment of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H3A 1A1, Canada.
Sara Bandres-CigaMolecular Genetics Section, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Sharon Hassin-BaerThe Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Roy N AlcalayDepartment of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Ziv Gan-OrDepartment of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H3A 1A1, Canada.
International Parkinson’s Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC)

Funding

Understanding Mechanisms of a-synuclein pathologyP50NS038377 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KO, HANSEOK · 1998 to 2019
$38.8M
'T V ASSESSMENT - MEMORY DISORDERED PATIENTS'P50AG005146 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LYKETSOS, CONSTANTINE G · 1985 to 2019
$37.6M
Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR000040 · NCATS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI GINSBERG, HENRY N · 2012 to 2015
$26.2M
Genetic characterization of atypical parkinsonismZIANS003154 · NINDS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE · PI SCHOLZ, SONJA · 2016 to 2025
$15.4M
Genome wide SNP analysis in Parkinson's diseaseZ01AG000949 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI SINGLETON, ANDREW B · 2006 to 2008
$2.6M
Prospective studies on Parkinson's diseaseZ01ES101986 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CHEN, HONGLEI · 2006 to 2008
$1.2M
The role of glucocerebrosidase in Parkinson's diseaseK02NS080915 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ALCALAY, ROY · 2012 to 2016
$905k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 AG000949Intramural NIH HHS Z01 ES101986Intramural NIH HHS ZIA NS003154NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000040NIA NIH HHS P50 AG005146NINDS NIH HHS K02 NS080915NINDS NIH HHS P50 NS038377
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Parkinson DiseaseSaposinsHumansSaposins

Identifiers

PMID32793944
PMCPMC7523699

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