Nigel Williams
Professor
Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences
Cardiff University School of Medicine
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Nigel Williams is leds research focused on learning more about the genetic and epigenetic factors that confer an increased risk to Parkinson's disease at Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences
Research Interest
My primary research interests focus on the molecular genetic analysis of common neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders, including schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and Parkinson’s disease.
Publications
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Lubbe, S.et al. 2016. Additional rare variant analysis in Parkinson?s disease cases with and without known pathogenic mutations: evidence for oligogenic inheritance. Human Molecular Genetics 25(24), pp. 5483-5489. (10.1093/hmg/ddw348)
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Marshall, C.et al. 2017. Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects. Nature Genetics 49(1), pp. 27-35. (10.1038/ng.3725)
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Malek, N.et al. 2017. Utility of the new Movement Disorder Society clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease applied retrospectively in a large cohort study of recent onset cases. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 40, pp. 40-46. (10.1016/j.parkreldis.2017.04.006)
