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Nature Genetics | 2007

The neuronal sortilin-related receptor SORL1 is genetically associated with Alzheimer disease

Ekaterina Rogaeva; Yan Meng; Joseph H. Lee; Yongjun Gu; Toshitaka Kawarai; Fanggeng Zou; Taiichi Katayama; Clinton T. Baldwin; Rong Cheng; Hiroshi Hasegawa; Fusheng Chen; Nobuto Shibata; Kathryn L. Lunetta; Raphaelle Pardossi-Piquard; Christopher Bohm; Yosuke Wakutani; L. Adrienne Cupples; Karen T. Cuenco; Robert C. Green; Lorenzo Pinessi; Innocenzo Rainero; Sandro Sorbi; Amalia C. Bruni; Ranjan Duara; Robert P. Friedland; Rivka Inzelberg; Wolfgang Hampe; Hideaki Bujo; You-Qiang Song; Olav M. Andersen

The recycling of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) from the cell surface via the endocytic pathways plays a key role in the generation of amyloid β peptide (Aβ) in Alzheimer disease. We report here that inherited variants in the SORL1 neuronal sorting receptor are associated with late-onset Alzheimer disease. These variants, which occur in at least two different clusters of intronic sequences within the SORL1 gene (also known as LR11 or SORLA) may regulate tissue-specific expression of SORL1. We also show that SORL1 directs trafficking of APP into recycling pathways and that when SORL1 is underexpressed, APP is sorted into Aβ-generating compartments. These data suggest that inherited or acquired changes in SORL1 expression or function are mechanistically involved in causing Alzheimer disease.


JAMA Neurology | 2010

Meta-analysis confirms CR1, CLU, and PICALM as alzheimer disease risk loci and reveals interactions with APOE genotypes.

Gyungah Jun; Adam C. Naj; Gary W. Beecham; Li-San Wang; Jacqueline Buros; Paul Gallins; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Nilufer Ertekin-Taner; M. Daniele Fallin; Robert P. Friedland; Rivka Inzelberg; Patricia L. Kramer; Ekaterina Rogaeva; Peter St George-Hyslop; Laura B. Cantwell; Beth A. Dombroski; Andrew J. Saykin; Eric M. Reiman; David A. Bennett; John C. Morris; Kathryn L. Lunetta; Eden R. Martin; Thomas J. Montine; Alison Goate; Deborah Blacker; Debby W. Tsuang; Duane Beekly; L. Adrienne Cupples; Hakon Hakonarson; Walter A. Kukull

OBJECTIVES To determine whether genotypes at CLU, PICALM, and CR1 confer risk for Alzheimer disease (AD) and whether risk for AD associated with these genes is influenced by apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotypes. DESIGN Association study of AD and CLU, PICALM, CR1, and APOE genotypes. SETTING Academic research institutions in the United States, Canada, and Israel. PARTICIPANTS Seven thousand seventy cases with AD, 3055 with autopsies, and 8169 elderly cognitively normal controls, 1092 with autopsies, from 12 different studies, including white, African American, Israeli-Arab, and Caribbean Hispanic individuals. RESULTS Unadjusted, CLU (odds ratio [OR], 0.91; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.85-0.96 for single-nucleotide polymorphism [SNP] rs11136000), CR1 (OR, 1.14; 95% CI, 1.07-1.22; SNP rs3818361), and PICALM (OR, 0.89; 95% CI, 0.84-0.94, SNP rs3851179) were associated with AD in white individuals. None were significantly associated with AD in the other ethnic groups. APOE ε4 was significantly associated with AD (ORs, 1.80-9.05) in all but 1 small white cohort and in the Arab cohort. Adjusting for age, sex, and the presence of at least 1 APOE ε4 allele greatly reduced evidence for association with PICALM but not CR1 or CLU. Models with the main SNP effect, presence or absence of APOE ε4, and an interaction term showed significant interaction between presence or absence of APOE ε4 and PICALM. CONCLUSIONS We confirm in a completely independent data set that CR1, CLU, and PICALM are AD susceptibility loci in European ancestry populations. Genotypes at PICALM confer risk predominantly in APOE ε4-positive subjects. Thus, APOE and PICALM synergistically interact.


Vision Research | 2004

Retinal nerve fiber layer thinning in Parkinson disease.

Rivka Inzelberg; Jose Antonio Ramirez; Puiu Nisipeanu; Avinoam Ophir

Retinal dopamine loss in Parkinson disease (PD) is reflected by visual neurophysiological dysfunction. We measured the thickness of the circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) in PD patients using optical coherence tomography. The thickness in the inferior quadrant of PD patients (147 +/- 20 microns) was significantly thinner than that of controls (173 +/- 12 microns; p=0.002), while the inferotemporal area was the thinnest (146 +/- 24 vs. 191 +/- 21 microns; p=0.0003). The results show significant loss of RNFL thickness in PD at specific sites.


Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry | 1998

Auditory hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease

Rivka Inzelberg; Svetlana Kipervasser; Amos D. Korczyn

Whereas visual hallucinations are often found among patients with Parkinson’s disease, the occurrence of auditory hallucinations has never been systematically documented. The occurrence, past and present, of auditory hallucinations has been studied in 121 consecutive patients with Parkinson’s disease attending a movement disorders clinic. The cognitive state was evaluated using the short mental test (SMT).  Hallucinations were reported for 45 patients (37%); 35 (29%) had only visual hallucinations and 10 (8%) both visual and auditory hallucinations. No patient reported auditory hallucinations unaccompanied by visual hallucinations. The auditory hallucinations occurred repeatedly, consisting of human voices. They were non-imperative (n=9), non-paranoid (n=9), and often incomprehensible (n=5). They were not obviously influenced by the patients’ age, duration of disease, or treatment with levodopa. Cognitive impairment was more common among hallucinating patients (64%, 50%, and 25% among patients with visual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, and non-hallucinating parkinsonian patients respectively). Depression necessitating antidepressants was present in five of 10 and other psychotic features in six patients with auditory hallucinations.  It is concluded that auditory hallucinations occur in Parkinson’s disease, particularly in patients who also have visual hallucinations and are cognitively impaired.


Clinical Neuropharmacology | 2000

Rasagiline mesylate, a new MAO-B inhibitor for the treatment of Parkinson's disease : A double-blind study as adjunctive therapy to levodopa

Jose M. Rabey; I. Sagi; M. Huberman; Eldad Melamed; Amos D. Korczyn; Nir Giladi; Rivka Inzelberg; Ruth Djaldetti; C. Klein; G. Berecz

Rasagiline mesylate (TVP-1012) is a potent, selective, non-reversible MAO-B inhibitor, without the tyramine-potentiating effect and with neuroprotective activities. The benefit of rasagiline as monotherapy in patients with early Parkinsons disease (PD) has already been reported. To evaluate the safety, tolerability, and clinical effect of rasagiline as adjunctive therapy to levodopa, a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study (0.5, 1, and 2 mg/d) was conducted for 12 weeks in 70 patients with PD (mean age, 57.4 y; mean disease duration, 5.7 y; 32 patients had motor fluctuations). A beneficial clinical effect was observed in fluctuating patients treated with rasagiline (all doses), expressed as a decrease in total Unified Parkinsons Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) score (23.0% vs 8.5% in the placebo group). The treatment effect was still evident 6 weeks after drug discontinuation (in all doses). The safety and tolerability of rasagiline were good. Adverse events were no different than those of patients taking placebo. Almost complete platelet MAO-B inhibition was obtained at all rasagiline doses. This study has demonstrated that rasagiline (up to 2 mg/day) has a good safety profile and a beneficial clinical effect in fluctuating patients with PD when given as an add-on to chronic levodopa therapy.


Experimental Neurology | 1992

Kinematic analysis of upper limb trajectories in Parkinson's disease

Tamar Flash; Rivka Inzelberg; Edna Schechtman; Amos D. Korczyn

The purpose of this study was to analyze the kinematic properties of upper limb trajectories in Parkinsons disease (PD) patients and to investigate the role of visual feedback from the moving limb. Beyond the characteristic bradykinesia, PD patients differed from controls by generating hand trajectories with asymmetrical velocity profiles that lacked smoothness and were composed of a short initial accelerative phase, followed by a prolonged interval composed of alternating decelerative and accelerative phases. In both groups, the reaction times for movements directed away from the body were longer than for movements directed toward the body; this effect was accentuated in PD. In both groups, initial peak accelerations were significantly larger for distally as compared to proximally directed movements. In the absence of visual feedback from the limb a deterioration in the accuracy of reaching the target was observed in both control and PD patients only for distally directed movements. However, this deterioration and the effect of target location on final accuracy was substantially larger in PD. Taken together, our study suggests that in PD visual information is continuously relied upon for ongoing movement correction, therefore accentuating the bradykinesia. The deficit in final accuracy in the absence of visual feedback reflects the important role played by the basal ganglia in sensorimotor integration.


Acta Neurologica Scandinavica | 1988

EEG in demented and non‐demented parkinsonian patients

Miriam Y. Neufeld; Rivka Inzelberg; Amos D. Korczyn

ABSTRACT‐ The electroencephalograms (EEG) of patients with Parkinsons disease (PD) were evaluated in relation to age, mental status and motor disability. Abnormalities, particularly mild slowing, were observed in 34% of 128 patients and more frequently in the elderly. While a slowing in occipital background activity was more frequent in demented patients, a statistically significant association was also observed between the degree of motor disability and the frequency of slowing in occipital background activity in mentally intact patients. This correlation may suggest that subcortical structures (involved in motor control) influence occipital background activity.


Neurology | 2007

ARE PARKINSON DISEASE PATIENTS PROTECTED FROM SOME BUT NOT ALL CANCERS

Rivka Inzelberg; Joseph Jankovic

There is substantial evidence based on well designed epidemiologic studies for low cancer rates in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). This risk reduction cannot be attributed to the recognized low life-long incidence of smoking in patients with PD, as not only smoking-related cancers but also non-smoking-related ones are less common in PD. Whereas the risk for most cancers appears to be relatively low in patients with PD, breast cancer and melanomas occur more frequently in the PD population as compared with controls. The relationship between this peculiar pattern of cancer rates and PD might be related to the involvement of common genes in both diseases. Mutations in parkin gene, for example, have been reported in several types of cancer. Furthermore, genes involved in familial forms of PD appear to be abnormally expressed in cancers. Thus, parkin and PINK1 might be tumor suppressor genes, whereas DJ-1 is an oncogene. Cell survival signals may differ owing to mutated genes and represent two opposite extremes such as cell proliferation in cancer and cell death due to apoptosis in PD. Unraveling the link between PD and cancer may open a therapeutic window for both diseases.


Movement Disorders | 2006

Clinicogenetic study of mutations in LRRK2 exon 41 in Parkinson's disease patients from 18 countries

Hiroyuki Tomiyama; Yuanzhe Li; Manabu Funayama; Kazuko Hasegawa; Hiroyo Yoshino; Shin-ichiro Kubo; Kenichi Sato; Tatsuya Hattori; Chin-Song Lu; Rivka Inzelberg; Ruth Djaldetti; Eldad Melamed; Rim Amouri; N. Gouider-Khouja; F. Hentati; Y. Hatano; Mei Wang; Yoko Imamichi; Koichi Mizoguchi; Hiroaki Miyajima; Fumiya Obata; Tatsushi Toda; Matthew J. Farrer; Yoshikuni Mizuno; Nobutaka Hattori

We screened LRRK2 mutations in exon 41 in 904 parkin‐negative Parkinsons disease (PD) patients (868 probands) from 18 countries across 5 continents. We found three heterozygous missense (novel I2012T, G2019S, and I2020T) mutations in LRRK2 exon 41. We identified 11 (1.3%) among 868 PD probands, including 2 sporadic cases and 8 (6.2%) of 130 autosomal dominant PD families. The LRRK2 mutations in exon 41 exhibited relatively common and worldwide distribution. Among the three mutations in exon 41, it has been reported that Caucasian patients with G2019S mutation have a single‐founder effect. In the present study, Japanese patients with G2019S were unlikely to have a single founder from the Caucasian patients. In contrast, I2020T mutation has a single‐founder effect in Japanese patients. Clinically, patients with LRRK2 mutations had typical idiopathic PD. Notably, several patients developed dementia and psychosis, and one with I2020T had low cardiac 123I‐metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) heart/mediastinum ratio, although the ratio was not low in other patients with I2020T or G2019S. Clinical phenotypes including psychosis, dementia, and MIBG ratios are also heterogeneous, similar to neuropathology, in PD associated with LRRK2 mutations.


Neurology | 2002

Practice parameter: Initiation of treatment for Parkinson’s disease: An evidence-based review

Rivka Inzelberg; Puiu Nisipeanu; Edna Schechtman

To the Editor: We have read with interest the practice parameter by Miyasaki et al.1 concerning the use of dopamine agonists (DA) in the treatment of patients with early Parkinson’s disease (PD). The authors stressed in this evidence-based review that cabergoline, pramipexole, and ropinirole were shown to be superior to levodopa in delaying the motor fluctuations and dyskinesias. However, they did not recommend any of the three DA as the first choice of treatment, arguably because there have been no adequate trials comparing these drugs with each other as monotherapy in early PD. To address this issue we compared the three …

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Edna Schechtman

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

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