Dr. Sonja Scholz, MD

• Neurology

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• The Johns Hopkins Hospital

  Residency Hospital, 2015

• The Johns Hopkins Hospital

  Internship Hospital, 2012

• University Innsbruck

  Medical School, 2004

• Personality traits are consistently associated with blood mitochondrial DNA copy number estimated from genome sequences in two genetic cohort studies, 2022-12-20

• Accelerating Medicines Partnership: Parkinson's Disease. Genetic Resource Iwaki et al, 2021-05-07

• Frequency of Loss of Function Variants inLRRK2in Parkinson Disease, 2018-11-01

• Author Correction: Local genetic correlations exist among neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases, 2023-05-30

• a-Synuclein deposition in sympathetic nerve fibers in genetic forms of Parkinson's Disease, 2021-06-02

• Local genetic correlations exist among neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases, 2023-04-28

• Regional genetic correlations highlight relationships between neurodegenerative disease loci and the immune system, 2023-07-15

• Single-cell somatic copy number variants in brain using different amplification methods and reference genomes, 2023-08-08

• GRN mutations are associated with Lewy body dementia, 2022-07-10

• Association of Variants in theSPTLC1Gene With Juvenile Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association of Variants in theSPTLC1Gene With Juvenile Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, 2021-08-30

• Genome-wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene, 2018-03-21

• C9orf72Hexanucleotide Repeat Analysis in Cases with Pathologically Confirmed Dementia with Lewy Bodies, 2016-05-31

• Genome sequencing analysis identifies new loci associated with Lewy body dementia and provides insights into its genetic architecture, 2021-02-15

• The Genetic Architecture of Parkinson Disease in Spain: Characterizing Population-Specific Risk, Differential Haplotype Structures, and Providing Etiologic Insight, 2019-10-29

• Divergent patterns of healthy aging across human brain regions at single-cell resolution reveal links to neurodegenerative disease, 2023-08-01

• Challenges in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, 2021-06-03

• A hexanucleotide repeat expansion inC9ORF72is the cause of chromosome 9p21-linked ALS-FTD, 2011-09-21

• Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) detection in Alzheimer's disease cases and controls across multiple cohorts, 2020-01-23

• Identification and prediction of Parkinson's disease subtypes and progression using machine learning in two cohorts, 2022-12-16

• GENETIC ANALYSIS OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES IN A PATHOLOGY COHORT, 2018-11-17

• Shared Genetics of Multiple System Atrophy and Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 2020-10-27

• A nonsynonymous mutation inPLCG2reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia, and increases the likelihood of longevity, 2019-05-26

• Clinical Trial-Ready Patient Cohorts for Multiple System Atrophy: Coupling Biospecimen and iPSC Banking to Longitudinal Deep-Phenotyping, 2022-10-03

• ADORA1mutations are not a common cause of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, 2016-12-17

• Factors impacting quality of life in multiple system atrophy, 2023-03-10

• Genetics Underlying Atypical Parkinsonism and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders, 2015-10-16

• Pathogenic Huntingtin Repeat Expansions in Patients with Frontotemporal Dementia and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, 2020-11-26

• Identification of new a-synuclein regulator by non-traditional drug development pipeline, 2018-01-11

• Assessment of APOE in Atypical Parkinsonism Syndromes, 2019-02-21

• Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-genome wide association study, 2021-08-31

• Scalable Nanopore sequencing of human genomes provides a comprehensive view of haplotype-resolved variation and methylation, 2023-04-05

• Correction to: A nonsynonymous mutation inPLCG2reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia, and increases the likelihood of longevity, 2020-01-18

• Next-generation sequencing reveals substantial genetic contribution to dementia with Lewy bodies, 2016-06-14

• Genetic determinants of survival in progressive supranuclear palsy: a genome-wide association study, 2020-12-17

• Genome-wide association study of REM sleep behavior disorder identifies polygenic risk and brain expression effects, 2022-12-05

• Multiple system atrophy is not caused byC9orf72hexanucleotide repeat expansions, 2014-09-06

• NeuroChip, an updated version of the NeuroX genotyping platform to rapidly screen for variants associated with neurological diseases, 2017-05-17

• Comprehensive short and long read sequencing analysis for the Gaucher and Parkinson's disease-associatedGBAgene, 2022-07-06

• A Critique of the Second Consensus Criteria for Multiple System Atrophy, 2019-04-29

• HLA in isolated REM sleep behavior disorder and Lewy body dementia E. Yuet al., 2023-07-04

• Insufficient evidence for pathogenicity of SNCA His50Gln (H50Q) in Parkinson's disease, 2017-12-20