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. 2022 Aug 9;8:102. doi: 10.1038/s41531-022-00342-7

Table 6.

Kendall correlation coefficient between clinical outcome (row) and polygenic risk score (PRS) for healthy controls (HC) (left) and Parkinson’s disease patients (PD) (right), with annotation by bold indicating significant effect where minus value indicates negative significant effect and positive value positive significant effect respectively (Kendall correlation test).

Clinical symptoms and scales HC PD
H&Y 0.0272 0.0272
MDS-UPDRS III −0.0088 −0.0341
MDS-UPDRS II −0.0242 0.0058
LEDD (g/day) 0.0091 −0.0147
Gait disorder* 0.4070 −0.0177
Repetitive falls* 0.6209 0.1690
MDS-UPDRS IV 0.0625 0.0625
Dyskinesia/day (hours) 0.0576 0.0576
OFF time/day (hours) 0.0100 0.0100
Dystonia/day (hours) 0.0491 0.0491
Dyskinesia* 0.1426
Motor fluctuations* 0.0864
Freezing of gait* 0.0084
MoCA 0.0542 −0.0493′
Sniffin’ stick test 0.1012 0.0576
PDQ-39 −0.0519 0.0386
SCOPA-AUT −0.0113 0.0150
MDS-UPDRS I −0.0556 0.0105
BDI-I −0.0155 0.0290
Starkstein Apathy Scale −0.0425 −0.0068
PDSS −0.0128 −0.0332
Probable RBD* −0.1142 −0.0703
Excessive daily sleepiness* 0.1638 −0.1261
Insomnia* −0.0356 0.1387
Hallucinations* −0.9806 −0.1225
Impulse Control Disorder* −2.1177 −0.0872
Orthostatic hypotension* 0.0839 −0.1331
Dysphagia* −0.6401 −0.2650′
Constipation* 0.2701 −0.0740
Urinary Incontinence* 0.1011 0.0434

Single and double ticks indicate significance at the 5% level and the Bonferroni-adjusted 5% level. The binary variables are annotated by asterisk. Clinical symptoms and scales are described in Supplementary Material.