• Andreas Puschmann, Itzia Jiménez-Ferrer, Elin Lundblad-Andersson, Emma Mårtensson, Oskar Hansson, Per Odin, Håkan Widner, Kajsa Brolin, Ropafadzo Mzezewa, Jonas Kristensen, Maria Soller, Emil Ygland Rödström, Owen A Ross, Mathias Toft, Guido J Breedveld, Vincenzo Bonifati, Lovisa Brodin, Anna Zettergren, Olof Sydow, Jan Linder, Karin Wirdefeldt, Per Svenningsson, Hans Nissbrandt, Andrea Carmine Belin, Lars Forsgren, and Maria Swanberg.
• Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Neurology, Lund, Sweden. Electronic address: Andreas.Puschmann@med.lu.se.
• Parkinsonism Relat. Disord. 2019 Sep 1; 66: 158-165.

ObjectiveTo determine the frequency of mutations known to cause autosomal dominant Parkinson disease (PD) in a series with more than 10% of Sweden's estimated number of PD patients.MethodsThe Swedish Parkinson Disease Genetics Network was formed as a national multicenter consortium of clinical researchers who together have access to DNA from a total of 2,206 PD patients; 85.4% were from population-based studies. Samples were analyzed centrally for known pathogenic mutations in SNCA (duplications/triplications, p.Ala30Pro, p.Ala53Thr) and LRRK2 (p.Asn1437His, p.Arg1441His, p.Tyr1699Cys, p.Gly2019Ser, p.Ile2020Thr). We compared the frequency of these mutations in Swedish patients with published PD series and the gnomAD database.ResultsA family history of PD in first- and/or second-degree relatives was reported by 21.6% of participants. Twelve patients (0.54%) carried LRRK2 p.(Gly2019Ser) mutations, one patient (0.045%) an SNCA duplication. The frequency of LRRK2 p.(Gly2019Ser) carriers was 0.11% in a matched Swedish control cohort and a similar 0.098% in total gnomAD, but there was a marked difference between ethnicities in gnomAD, with 42-fold higher frequency among Ashkenazi Jews than all others combined.ConclusionsIn relative terms, the LRRK2 p.(Gly2019Ser) variant is the most frequent mutation among Swedish or international PD patients, and in gnomAD. SNCA duplications were the second most common of the mutations examined. In absolute terms, however, these known pathogenic variants in dominant PD genes are generally very rare and can only explain a minute fraction of familial aggregation of PD. Additional genetic and environmental mechanisms may explain the frequent co-occurrence of PD in close relatives.Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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