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. 2013 Jan 22;3:tre-03-105-1843-1. doi: 10.7916/D8Q23Z0Z

Table 1. Association Study Cohort Sizes in Essential Tremor (ET) Genetics Research.

Study ET n Control n ET Cohort Source Overall Result
ETM1
HS1-BP3 828C→G variant 49 92 United States Negative
Shatunov et al, 200563
HS1-BP3 828C→G variant 73 304 United States Positive
Higgins et al, 200661 Note initial 2005 report from same group with G variant in ET cases in 2 of 21 US ET families, not ET or unaffecteds in the other families, and not 150 US controls or 73 ET Singaporean cases
HS1-BP3 828C→G variant 222 132 United States Negative
Deng et al, 200562
ETM2
ETM2 sequence variants 30 30 Korean Positive
Kim et al, 200537
ETM2 polymorphisms 61 68 Czech Negative
Zahorakova et al, 201038
DRD3 312A→G variant 104 116 Latvian Negative
Inashkina et al, 200839
DRD3 312A→G variant 116 158 Italian Negative
Vitale et al, 200870
DRD3 312A→G variant 163 192 Singaporean Negative
Tan et al, 200768
DRD3 312A→G variant 201 282 Spanish Positive
Garcia-Martin et al, 200966
DRD3 312A→G variant 276 184 United States Positive
Jeanneteau et al, 200665 30 50 French
DRD3 312A→G variant 299 528 German, Danish, French Negative
Lorenz et al, 200969
DRD3 312A→G variant 433 272 United States Negative
Blair et al, 200867
LINGO genes
LINGO1 rs9652490 and rs11856808 109 430 Chinese Han Negative
Zuo et al, 201054
LINGO1 rs9652490 117 160 Chinese Negative
Wu et al, 201157 Note combining with Tan et al53 plus unpublished data into 307 ET and 804 control, meta-analysis positive
LINGO1 rs9652490 141 130 Latvian Positive
Radovica et al, 201252 9 other SNPs including rs11856808 negative
LINGO4 variants 150 300 Chinese Han Negative
Liang et al, 201259
LINGO1 rs9652490 190 733 Singaporean Positive
Tan et al, 200953
LINGO1 rs9652490 and rs11856808 226 1117 Spanish Negative
Lorenzo-Betancor et al, 201155
LINGO1 SNPs 257 265 United States Positive for rs9652490 and others
Clark et al, 201051 Negative for rs11856808 and others out of 15 SNPs total
Note meta-analysis combining 3 or 4 published cohorts46, 50, 51, 53 also positive
LINGO1 rs9652490 and rs11856808 259 479 French Canadian Negative
Bourassa et al, 201156
LINGO2 variants 327 499 Chinese, Singaporean Positive for rs7033345 and rs10812774 of 8 variants
Wu et al, 201158
LINGO1 SNPs 332 574 German, French Positive for rs9652490 and 1 other
Thier et al, 201048 Negative for rs11856808 and others out of 10 SNPs total
LINGO1 rs9652490 356 428 North American Positive
Vilarino-Guell et al, 201050
GWAS 452 14,394 Icelandic Positive for LINGO1 rs9652490 and rs11856808 in initial cohort; rs9652490 only in confirmatory cohorts
Stefansson et al, 200946 281 1188 Austrian, German, United States
LINGO1 and LINGO2 variants 1247 642 North American Positive for LINGO1 rs9652490 and 4 others of 16 total, and LINGO2 rs1412229 alone of 21.
Vilarino-Guell et al, 201049
SNCA
REP1 length 46 100 United States Positive
Tan et al, 200075
SNCA variants 106 90 Italian Negative
Pigullo et al, 200390
SNCA variants 647 1285 North American Negative
Ross et al, 201191
Other variants
GABAAR subunit genes variants 200 250 Spanish Negative
Garcia-Martin et al, 201194, 95
GABAAR subunits and GABA transporter genes variants 503 818 German, Dutch Negative
Thier et al, 201193
HNMT rs11558538 204 295 Spanish Positive
Ledesma et al, 200896
HNMT rs11558538 338 409 North American Negative
Keeling et al, 201097

Studies are grouped under genetic categories, and listed by first author and year of publication. Within hypothesis groups, studies are ordered by ET n. If the study combined cohorts in one analysis then the full ET n is used. If the same study used different cohorts in different analyses, the larger ET n is listed first. ET cohort source is geographical; some papers have further details on ethnicity. North American  =  United States and Canada. Overall result considers the main thrust of the study, with a few further notations; see text for comments on age of onset influences, and cited references for full study results details including specific genetic variants tested, haplotype analyses, methods.

Abbreviations: DRD3, dopamine D3 receptor gene; ET, essential tremor; ETM, Hereditary Essential Tremor, Online Mendelian Inheritance of Man (OMIM) locus designation; GABA, gamma-aminobutyric acid; GABAAR, gamma-aminobutyric acid A receptor; HNMT, histamine N-methyltransferase gene; HS1-BP3, HS1 binding protein 3 gene; LINGO, leucine-rich repeat- and Ig domain-containing Nogo receptor-interacting protein; numbered italicized LINGOs are genes encoding LINGO proteins; REP1, mixed dinucleotide repeat sequence in the SNCA promoter region; SNCA, gene encoding α-synuclein; SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphisms; US, United States.