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Overview

Ziv Gan-Or is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience, with a specialized focus on Neurology, Genetics, Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. The scientist's work predominantly addresses neurological diseases, especially Parkinson's disease and related mechanisms.

The research topics that define their output include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • Neurological diseases and metabolism
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Nuclear Receptors and Signaling
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Ziv Gan-Or has published extensively in multiple venues. The most frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Movement Disorders
  • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • Brain

Key recent papers illustrating their research contributions are:

  • Genome sequencing analysis identifies new loci associated with Lewy body dementia and provides insights into its genetic architecture, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Biomarkers of conversion to α-synucleinopathy in isolated rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour disorder, 2021, The Lancet Neurology
  • Type 2 Diabetes as a Determinant of Parkinson's Disease Risk and Progression, 2021, Movement Disorders
  • Finding genetically-supported drug targets for Parkinson's disease using Mendelian randomization of the druggable genome, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets, 2021, JAMA Neurology

The scientist frequently collaborates with peers, including Eric Yu, Konstantin Senkevich, Guy A. Rouleau, Jennifer A. Ruskey, and Lynne Krohn. These collaborations have contributed significantly to the breadth and depth of their research.

Best Publications

  • Multicenter Analysis of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Parkinson's Disease

    Ellen Sidransky;Michael A. Nalls;Jan O. Aasly;Judith Aharon-Peretz

  • Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Mike A Nalls;Cornelis Blauwendraat;Costanza L Vallerga;Karl Heilbron

  • Genome sequencing analysis identifies new loci associated with Lewy body dementia and provides insights into its genetic architecture

    Ruth Chia;Marya S. Sabir;Sara Bandres-Ciga

  • Glucocerebrosidase activity in Parkinson’s disease with and without GBA mutations

    Roy N. Alcalay;Oren A. Levy;Cheryl H. Waters;Stanley Fahn

  • Genotype-phenotype correlations between GBA mutations and Parkinson disease risk and onset

    Z. Gan-Or;N. Giladi;U. Rozovski;C. Shifrin

  • Parkinson's disease age at onset genome-wide association study: Defining heritability, genetic loci, and α-synuclein mechanisms.

    Cornelis Blauwendraat;Karl Heilbron;Costanza L. Vallerga;Sara Bandres-Ciga

  • Differential effects of severe vs mild GBA mutations on Parkinson disease

    Ziv Gan-Or;Idan Amshalom;Laura L. Kilarski;Anat Bar-Shira

  • Genetic Perspective on the Role of the Autophagy-Lysosome Pathway in Parkinson Disease

    Ziv Gan-Or;Patrick A Dion;Guy A Rouleau

  • Revisiting protein aggregation as pathogenic in sporadic Parkinson and Alzheimer diseases.

    Alberto J. Espay;Joaquin A. Vizcarra;Luca Marsili;Anthony E. Lang

  • Genetic modifiers of risk and age at onset in GBA associated Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia

    Cornelis Blauwendraat;Xylena Reed;Lynne Krohn;Lynne Krohn;Karl Heilbron

  • Biomarkers of conversion to α-synucleinopathy in isolated rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour disorder

    Mitchell G. Miglis;Charles H. Adler;Elena Antelmi;Dario Arnaldi

  • Identification of novel risk loci for restless legs syndrome in genome-wide association studies in individuals of European ancestry: a meta-analysis.

    Barbara Schormair;Chen Zhao;Steven Bell;Erik Tilch

  • The p.L302P mutation in the lysosomal enzyme gene SMPD1 is a risk factor for Parkinson disease

    Ziv Gan-Or;Laurie J. Ozelius;Anat Bar-Shira;Rachel Saunders-Pullman

  • GBA mutations are associated with Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder

    Ziv Gan‐Or;Ziv Gan‐Or;Anat Mirelman;Ronald B. Postuma;Isabelle Arnulf

  • Type 2 Diabetes as a Determinant of Parkinson's Disease Risk and Progression

    Harneek Chohan;Konstantin Senkevich;Konstantin Senkevich;Radhika K Patel;Jonathan P Bestwick

  • Disease modification and biomarker development in Parkinson disease: Revision or reconstruction?

    Alberto J. Espay;Lorraine V. Kalia;Ziv Gan-Or;Caroline H. Williams-Gray

  • GBA-Associated Parkinson's Disease and Other Synucleinopathies.

    Ziv Gan-Or;Christopher Liong;Roy N Alcalay

  • Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets

    Demis A. Kia;David Zhang;Sebastian Guelfi;Claudia Manzoni

  • Mitochondria function associated genes contribute to Parkinson's Disease risk and later age at onset.

    Billingsley Kj;Barbosa Ia;Bandrés-Ciga S;Quinn Jp

  • Identification of novel risk loci for restless legs syndrome in genome-wide association studies in individuals of European ancestry: a meta-analysis

    Barbara Schormair;Chen Zhao;Steven Bell;Erik Tilch

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy A. Rouleau
Guy A. Rouleau Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Patrick A. Dion
Patrick A. Dion Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Yves Dauvilliers
Yves Dauvilliers University of Montpellier
Ronald B. Postuma
Ronald B. Postuma McGill University
Avi Orr-Urtreger
Avi Orr-Urtreger Tel Aviv University
Mike A. Nalls
Mike A. Nalls National Institutes of Health
Andrew B. Singleton
Andrew B. Singleton National Institutes of Health
Nir Giladi
Nir Giladi Tel Aviv University
Jacques Montplaisir
Jacques Montplaisir University of Montreal
Birgit Högl
Birgit Högl Innsbruck Medical University

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