Review Article

The Association between E326K of GBA and the Risk of Parkinson’s Disease

Table 1

The characteristics of all included publications.

First author, yearNOSGenetic methodCountryTotal number (Na)Genotype (GG/GA/AA)
CasesControlsCasesControls

Bras, 2009 [10]9PCR and Sanger sequencingPortugal230430228/2/0427/3/0
Clark, 2007 [11]9PCR and Sanger sequencingAmerica278179277/1/0178/1/0
Spitz, 2008 [12]8RFLPBrazil6526764/1/0267/0/0
Ziegler, 2007 [6]8PCR and Sanger sequencingChina929274/18/092/0/0
Nichols, 2009 [13]8PCR and TaqMan allelic-discrimination assaysNorth America450359422/28/0348/11/0
Kalinderi, 2009 [14]7NAGreece172132171/1/0131/1/0
Lesage, 2011 [4]7PCR and Sanger sequencingFrance13913911390/1/0391/0/0
Lesage, 2011 [15]7NANorth Africa194 (193)177192/1/0176/1/0
Duran, 2013 [7]7PCR and Sanger sequencingUK185283171/12/2283/0/0
Yu, 2015 [16]8PCR and Sanger sequencingChina184130183/1/0130/0/0
Han, 2016 [17]8PCR and Sanger sequencingCanada225110221/4/0106/4/0
Ran, 2016 [8]8PyrosequencingSweden1625 (1540)2025 (1937)1450/90/01872/65/0
Crosiers, 2016 [18]8PCR and Sanger sequencingFlanders-Belgian266536254/12/0521/15/0
Jesús, 2016 [19]8HRM and direct resequeningSpain532542516/16/0529/13/0
Barkhuizen, 2017 [20]8PCR and Sanger sequencingSouth Africa10540100/5/039/1/0

NOS: Newcastle–Ottawa Scale; NA: not available; PD: Parkinson’s disease; anumber of patients whose sequencing results for E326K were available.