Title
Telomere length in Parkinson's disease: A meta-analysis
Date Issued
01 March 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Forero D.A.
González-Giraldo Y.
López-Quintero C.
Castro-Vega L.J.
Perry G.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Inc.
Abstract
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common and severe movement disorder. Differences in telomere length (TL) have been reported as possible risk factors for several neuropsychiatric disorders, including PD. Results from published studies for TL in PD are inconsistent, highlighting the need for a meta-analysis. In the current work, a meta-analysis of published studies for TL in PD was carried out. PubMed, Web of Science and Google Scholar databases were used to identify relevant articles that reported TL in groups of PD patients and controls. A random-effects model was used for meta-analytical procedures. The meta-analysis included eight primary studies, derived from populations of European and Asian descent, and did not show a significant difference in TL between 956 PD patients and 1284 controls (p value: 0.246). Our results show that there is no consistent evidence of shorter telomeres in PD patients and suggest the importance of future studies on TL and PD that analyze other populations and also include assessment of TL from different brain regions.
Start page
53
End page
55
Volume
75
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Neurología clínica Neurociencias
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84954570754
PubMed ID
Source
Experimental Gerontology
ISSN of the container
05315565
Sponsor(s)
DAF is supported by research grants from Colciencias and VCTI-UAN (grants # 20131079 and 20131080 ). YG-G is supported by a PhD fellowship from Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios Básicos y Aplicados CEIBA (Rodolfo Llinás Program). CLQ is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (grant # T32DA021129 , PI: J. Anthony). GEB work is supported by Pontificia Universidad Javeriana . GP is supported by a NIH grant ( G12-MD007591 ). We thank corresponding authors that contributed with additional data from primary studies that were not available in the original articles.
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