Overview of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) published in PD until March 31, 2011.

The overview is based on content on the PDGene website (http://www.pdgene.org; current on March 31st, 2011). Studies are listed in order of publication date. ‘# PD GWAS’ and ‘# CTRL GWAS’ refers to sample sizes used in the initial GWAS datasets, whereas ‘Follow-up’ refers to the total number of replication samples where applicable. ‘Featured genes’ are those genes/loci that were declared as ‘associated’ in the original publication; note that criteria for declaring association varies across studies. Genetic loci in bold font denote genes showing genome-wide significant results (P<5×10−8) in the PDGene meta-analyses.