Name: Joanne Trinh

Position/Title: Research Group Leader of groupIntegrative Omics in Parkinson’s disease’, Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lübeck

Address: Institute of Neurogenetics and Section of Clinical and Molecular Neurogenetics at the Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck

Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany

Phone: +49-451-3101 8203; Fax: +49-451-2903353
Email: joanne.trinh@uni-luebeck.de

Current Position

2020-present: Habilitation (Assistant Professor equivalent)

2018-present: Group Leader, Integrative Omics in Parkinson’s disease, Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lübeck, Group Size: 7 (3 PhD students, 1 MSc, 2 technicians, 1 visiting PhD)

2020: Habilitation Complete (Faculty member, Assistant Prof. equivalent)      

Education

2017: PhD, University of British Columbia, Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Farrer, Department of Medical Genetics, Centre for Applied Neurogenetics, Canada Excellence Research Chair

2012: BSc, University of British Columbia

Additional Education

2019: Oxford Nanopore Training, Oxford University, UK            

2015: Welcome Trust Sanger Institute Advanced Human Genome Analysis, Cambridge University, UK

Previous Professional Positions and Appointments

2017: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Lübeck, Supervisor: Dr. Christine Klein

2017: Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist, Centogene, Berlin, Supervisor: Dr. Arndt Rolfs

2015-2016: Visiting Scientist, University of Antwerp, Supervisor: Dr. Christine Van Broeckhoven

2022: Wissenschaftspreis (Science Prize) Uni Lubeck

2020-2023: Lindau Nobel Laureate Nominee and Attendee

2019: Movement Disorders Society Travel Grant

2018: GeoPD France Parkinson Travel Award

2017: Else Kröner Fresenius Preis für Medizinische Forschung Travel Grant

2015: Faculty of Medicine Graduate Student Award

2015: Colorado Keystone Meeting Travel Award (declined)

2015: James Miller Memorial Award Outstanding Translational Research

2015: CIHR National Poster Competition Honourable Mention

2015: Canadian Student Health Research Forum  Award

2015: Faculty of Graduate Studies Travel Award

2013: Cold Spring Harbor Travel Award

2013: World Parkinson Congress Travel Award

2013: Graduate student – LSI 1st place poster award

2013: Best Poster Award: NGS Symposium

2012: Faculty of Medicine SSRP

2010-2012: Dean's Honour List

2011: UBC President's Travel Certificate

2010: BCCGN Travel Grant

2010: SSRP CFRI Poster Presentation Honourable Mention

2008-2009: UBC President’s Entrance Scholarship

2008-2012: Cecil White Memorial Scholarship Vancouver Foundation

2004-2008: Academic Excellence Award

2008: BC Government District Scholarship

2008: Passport to Education

Research Grants Awarded

Total grant funding awarded (including honors/awards): €2,933,824.71

Active Grants


“Genetic characterization of GBA mutations in Dystonia using long-read sequencing”
Main Principal Investigator: Dr. Sebastian Schreglmann
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
Funding agency: DMRF Dystonia Coalition
Funding period: 2023-2024
$44,822 (USD)

“Microbiome-mitochondrial interactions impact neuronal circuits and gut-brain connections in Parkinson’s disease”
Main Principal Investigator: Prof. Bastiaan Bloem,
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh, Prof. Rejko Krueger
Funding agency: ZonMW
Funding period: 2023-2027
€873,600.15

“Interaction of mitochondrial genes and lifestyle factors on age at onset in idiopathic and LRRK2 Parkinson’s disease”
Main Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
Co-Investigator: Prof. Christine Klein
Paid Consultant: Prof. Inke König
Funding agency: MJFF
Funding period: 2022-2024
$340,461 (USD)

“Investigating the impact of COVID-19 on Parkinson’s disease”
Main Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh,
Co-Investigators: Prof. Markus Glatzel, Prof. Christine Klein
Funding agency: DFG
Funding period: 2022-2025
€347,750

“Investigation of environmental factors in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease and LRRK2-related Parkinson’s disease”
Main Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
Co-Investigator: Prof. Christine Klein
Funding agency: MJFF
Funding period: 2021-2022
$99,512 (USD)

“Identification of pathogenic structural variants and repeat expansions in Parkinson's disease”
Main Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh,
Co-Investigators: Prof. Katja Lohmann, Prof. Hauke Busch
Funding agency: DFG
Funding period: 2021-2024
€459,299

“P1: Molecular mechanisms defining penetrance of LRRK2-associated Parkinson’s disease”
Research Unit FOR2488
Principal Investigator: Prof. Anne Grunewald,
Co-Investigators: Prof. Meike Kasten, Dr. Joanne Trinh
Funding agency: DFG
Funding period: 2020-2023
€203,704

“Investigation of age-at-onset genetic modifier loci in LRRK2 parkinsonism”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
Funding agency: Else Kröner Fresenius Foundation
Funding period: 2020-2023
€267,850

“Mechanism and Markers of Reduced Penetrance in LRRK2 mutation carriers using induced pluripotent stem cells”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Funding agency: Canadian Tri-Agency Federal funding
Funding period: 2019-2023 (deferred, maternity leave)
$200,000 CAD

Completed grants


“Deep characterization of mitochondrial DNA to discover penetrance modifiers of monogenic Parkinson’s disease”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Grant
Funding agency: Peter Engelhorn Foundation
Funding period: 2020-2021
€155,000

“Integrative omics approaches to investigate the reduced penetrance of Parkinson disease”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
Funding agency: University of Lübeck Intramural project funding
Funding period: 2019-2020
€75,000

“Omics approaches in Parkinson disease”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
Joachim Herz Stiftung: Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Science
Funding agency: Joachim Herz Stiftung
Funding period: 2017-2020 (prolonged)
€12,500

“Investigation of LRRK2 modifiers”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship Grant
Funding agency: Humboldt Foundation
Funding period: 2017-2019
€68,600

“Disease penetrance modifiers”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
CIHR Michael Smith Foreign Exchange Supplement
Funding agency: Canadian Tri-Agency Federal funding
Funding period: 2015
$6,000 CAD

“Genetic modifiers of disease penetrance of LRRK2 p.Gly2019Ser parkinsonism”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
CIHR Doctoral Award – Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship
Funding agency: Canadian Tri-Agency Federal funding
Funding period: 2014-2017
$105,000 CAD

“Genetic modifiers of disease penetrance of LRRK2 p.Gly2019Ser parkinsonism”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
Simons Foundation Doctoral Scholarship
Funding agency: Simons Foundation
Funding period: 2014
$5,750 CAD

“Investigation of penetrance in parkinsonism”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
UBC Four Year Fellowship Recipient and Tuition award (Awarded by title)
Funding agency: University of British Columbia
Funding period: 2014-2017
$88,000 CAD

“Penetrance modifiers in LRRK2”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Trinh
Leading Edge Endowment Fund Graduate Studentship
Funding agency: Genome BC
Funding period: 2012-2017
$25,000 CAD

Teaching
2020-present: Third generation sequencing consolidation course, “Molecular Life Science” Program, University of Lübeck, Germany. Course Coordinator: PD Dr. Joanne Trinh

2019-present: Neurobiomedicine “Molecular Life Science” Program, University of Lübeck, Germany. Course Coordinator: Prof. Philip Seibler

2016: Teaching Assistant for Advanced Cell Biology 200W, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Course Coordinator: Dr. Robin Young

2015: Genetic modifiers of neurological disorders. Medical lecture at Trondheim University. Trondheim, Norway. Invited by Director Prof. Jan Aasly.

2014: Teaching Assistant for Advanced Medical Genetics 420W, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Course Coordinator: Prof. Carles Vilarino-Guell

XXX External PhD examiner committee
Margrete Langmyhr
Institute of Clinical Medicine
Thesis: Investigating the molecular genetics of sporadic Parkinson’s disease
PhD, University of Oslo
Year: 2021

Katja Badanjak
Luxembourg Center for Systems Biomedicine
Thesis: Investigating neuroinflammation in sporadic and LRRK2-associated Parkinson's disease
PhD, University of Luxembourg
Year: 2022

Svenja Vishnolia
Institute of Cardiogenetics
Thesis: Allele-specific RNA-targeted Therapy as a Treatment Strategy for Collagen VI congenital Muscular Dystrophy
MD, University of Lübeck
Year: 2022

Theresa König
Department of Neurology
Thesis: Detection, Frequency and Implication of Genetic Variants in Dementia PhD, Medical University of Vienna
Year: 2022

Nikita Simone Pillay
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Thesis: Next generation sequencing approaches for novel gene discovery in South African Parkinson’s disease families
PhD,
Year: 2023

Master’s defenses
Theresa Lueth
Kathleen Schlueter
Carolin Gabbert
Joshua Lass
Leonie Bloebaum

Current Mentorship
Theresa Lüth (currently PhD student)
Description: Mitochondrial interaction with lifestyle/environment in penetrance of LRRK2 parkinsonism

Carolin Gabbert (currently PhD student)
Description: Missing heritability of Parkinson’s disease: genetics and lifestyle/environmental factors

Joshua Lass (currently PhD student)
Description: Parkinson’s disease, somatic mosaicism, Covid-19 and inflammation

Elisabeth Luisa Germer (MD student)
Description: Mentor for doctoral thesis on mapping novel recessive genes for Parkinson’s disease
Current status: Medical student at the University of Luebeck

Alumni
Leonie Bloebaum (MSc student)
Description: Mentor for MSc Thesis project on polygenic risk score and lifestyle factors in Parkinson’s disease onset

Panna Lajer (MSc student)
Description: Erasmus host mentor for 9-month internship on longitudinal progression data and the environment
Result: Completed MSc Erasmus and received DAAD grant
Current Status: PhD student in Graz

Kathleen Schlüter (c MSc student)
Description: Mentor for MSc Thesis project on X-linked dystonia parkinsonism and repeat interruptions
Result: Graduated with highest distinction (summa cum laude)
Current Status: PhD student in Heidelberg

Joshua Lass (MSc student)
Description: Mentor for MLS internship practical studies and MSc Thesis
Result: Graduated with highest distinction (summa cum laude)
Current status: PhD student

Beke Kolms (Internship student)
Description: Mentor for Internship studies
Current status: MSc student in MLS studies Luebeck

Carolin Gabbert (MSc student)
Description: Mentor for Master’s thesis
Result: Graduated with highest distinction (summa cum laude)
Current status: PhD student at Institute of Neurogenetics

Theresa Lüth (MSc student)
Description: Mentor for internship practical studies and Master’s thesis
Result: Graduated with highest distinction (summa cum laude)
Current status: PhD student at Institute of Neurogenetics

Anna Gramalla (MSc student)
Description: Mentor for internship practical studies
Current status: PhD student in Switzerland

Sophie Imhoff (MD student)
Description: Mentor for doctoral thesis on mitochondrial disorders and deep mitochondrial sequencing
Result: Graduated with highest distinction (summa cum laude)
Current status: Hospital emergency care unit

Miguel Ramirez (PhD student)
Description: Mentor for exome sequencing in familial PD
Current status: PhD student at the University of British Columbia

Ben Chen (BSc student)
Description: Mentor for Summer student on exome sequencing in PD
Current status: completed BSc at the University of British Columbia

Mary Encarnacion (BSc student)
Description: Mentor for Summer studentship (Co-operative education program)
Current status: Research Technologist

Mimi Wei (BSc student)
Description: Supervisor for undergraduate research experience
Current status: completed BSc at the University of British Columbia

Shannon Tang (BSc student)
Description: Supervisor for undergraduate research experience
Current status: completed BSc at the University of British Columbia

Katheline Cao (BSc student)
Description: Supervisor for undergraduate research experience
Current status: completed BSc at the University of British Columbia

Aditi Chadha (BSc student)
Description: Supervisor for undergraduate research experience
Current status: completed BSc at the University of British Columbia

Genetics modifiers of Parkinson’s disease. Seminar at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. IMG, Prague, Czech Republic. 2022 Nov 22.

MtDNA variant burden influences inflammation and disease onset in PINK1- and Parkin-linked Parkinson’s disease. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Parkinson und Bewegungsstörungen e.V. Hannover, Germany. 2022 March 24.

Genotype-Phenotype Correlations. International Movement Disorders Society Congress. Invited Lecture. Philadelphia, USA. 2020 Sept 15. (virtual conference due to Covid-19)

72nd Annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Lindau, Germany. 2023 June 25– July 1

70th Annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Lindau, Germany. 2021 June 27 – July 2 (virtual conference moved due to Covid-19).

Genetics modifiers of Parkinson’s disease. Seminar at the Joachim Herz Stiftung. Annual Joachim Herz Meeting. Hamburg, Germany. 2019 Sept 21.

Using analytics in the context of genetics and neurological diseases. Invited Talk. Hexal Symposium. Interdisciplinary modern analytics. Holzkirchen, Munich. 2019 July 22.

Genetics and penetrance modifiers in neurological disease. Seminar at the Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich. Invited by Professor Juliane Winkelmann. 2019 July 25.

From Phenotype to Genotype and Back: The MDSGene Database. Invited Talk. International Parkinson’s Disease Genetics Consortium. Lisbon, Portugal 2019 March 24.

De-novo TAOK1 mutations in neurodevelopmental disorders. Selected Platform. German Society of Human Genetics. Weimar, Germany. 2019 February 27.

Reduced penetrance of parkinsonism. Selected Talk. Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship Meeting lecture. Potsdam, Germany. 2018 February 21.

MDSGene database skills workshop lecture. Invited Seminar. International Movement Disorders Society Congress. Vancouver, BC, Canada. 2017 June 7.

Reduced penetrance of LRRK2 parkinsonism. Invited Seminar at the DPG Congress. Baden-Baden, Germany. 2017 May 5.

Genetic modifiers of LRRK2 parkinsonism. Seminar at the VIB. Antwerp, Belgium. Invited by Professor Christine Van Broeckhoven. 2016 January 13

Genetic modifiers of LRRK2 parkinsonism. Seminar at Karolinska Institute. Stockholme, Sweden. Invited by Professor Caroline Graff. 2016 January 19

Genetic modifiers of LRRK2 parkinsonism. Seminar at the University of Luebeck Institute of Neurogenetics. Luebeck, Germany. Invited by Professor Christine Klein. 2015 December 3

Genetic modifiers of neurological disorders. Medical lecture at Trondheim University. Trondheim, Norway. Invited by Director Jan Aasly. 2015 October 19

DNM3; a genetic modifier of LRRK2 parkinsonism. Platform Presentation at 2014 Annual Meeting Genetic Epidemiology of Parkinson disease. September 10-12, Vancouver, BC.

Trinh J. Invited comment on paper by R Saunders-Pullman et al., 2018, Alzheimer Research Forum, 23 Mar 2018. https://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/tracking-lrrk2-parkinsons-progression-better-trial-design#comment-26891

Parkinson’s Foundation Science News. 2017. In Rare Inherited PD, Newly-Identified Gene May Impact Age of Diagnosis. https://www.parkinson.org/blog/science-news/science-article/rare-inherited-parkinsons

Michael J Fox Foundation. 2017. Genetic Switch May Determine Age of LRRK2 Parkinson’s Onset. https://www.michaeljfox.org/news/genetic-switch-may-determine-age-lrrk2-parkinsons-onset

University Article on Grant funding on Lifestyle and Environmental interactions with Genetics in Parkinson’s disease. https://www.uni-luebeck.de/forschung/aktuelles-zur-forschung/aktuelles-zur-forschung/artikel/wie-umwelt-und-lebensstil-den-ausbruch-der-parkinson-krankheit-beeinflussen.html

University Article on Grant funding for Covid and Parkinson’s disease research. https://www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/nachricht/artikel/hat-covid-19-einen-einfluss-auf-die-parkinson-krankheit.html

University Article, Science Prize.
https://www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/die-preise-der-universitaet/wissenschaftspreis-der-universitaet.html

Editorial Board
Editorial board member: Annals of Neurology
Review Editor: Frontiers of Neurology – Neurogenetics
Review Editor: Frontiers of Neurology – Movement Disorders
Topic Editor: Genes
Guest Editor: Genes

Ad-Hoc Reviewer for
Nature Communications, Nature Neurology Reviews, Annals of Neurology, Brain, PNAS, NPJ Parkinson’s disease, Human Mutation, Movement Disorders, European Journal of Neurology, Scientific Reports, Neuroscience Letters, Parkinsonism and related disorders, Journal of Neurological Sciences, PLOS One, Neurobiology of Aging, Parkinson’s Disease, Frontiers of Neurology, Frontier Genetics

2017-present: Movement Disorders Society member

2017-present: MDSGene member

2015-present: German Grant (DFG) Research Unit Meeting: Reduced Penetrance of Movement disorders

2014-present: Genetic and epidemiology of PD (GeoPD) member

2012-present: LRRK2 modifier consortium: Michael J Fox Foundation

2013-present: LRRK2 cohort consortium: Michael J. Fox Foundation

2010-present: American Society of Human Genetics member

  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Neurology Reviews
  • Annals of Neurology
  • European Journal of Neurology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Neuroscience Letters
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • PLOS One
  • Parkinsonism and related disorders
  • Journal of Neurological Sciences
  • Movement Disorders
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • Parkinson’s disease

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Total 66 publications, >3,000 citations, an h-index=23

PubMed List: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/joanne.trinh.1/bibliography/public/

ORCID: 0000-0001-9863-2070

*=equal contribution

 

  1. Carolin Gabbert, Leonie Blöbaum, Theresa Lüth, Inke R König, Amke Caliebe, Sebastian Koch, Björn-Hergen Laabs, Christine Klein, Joanne Trinh. The combined effect of lifestyle factors and polygenic scores on age at onset in Parkinson's disease. doi: 10.1101/2023.08.25.23294466

 

  1. Milda Aleknonytė-Resch, Joanne Trinh, Hampton Leonard, Sylvie Delcambre, Elsa Leitaõ, Dongbing Lai, Semra Smajić, Avi Orr-Urtreger, Avner Thaler, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Arunabh Sharma, Mary B. Makarious, Jonggeol Jeff Kim, Julie Lake, Pegah Rahmati, Sandra Freitag-Wolf, Philip Seibler, Tatiana Foroud, Andrew B. Singleton, The International Parkinson Disease Genomics Consortium, Anne Grünewald, Frank Kaiser, Christine Klein, Michael Krawczak*, Astrid Dempfle*. Genome-wide case-only analysis of gene-gene interactions with known Parkinson's disease risk variants reveals link between LRRK2 and SYT10. NPJ Parkinson’s disease. 9(1):102. doi: 10.1038/s41531-023-00550-9.

 

  1. Diana Angelika Olszewska, Aakash Shetty, Rajasumi Rajalingam, Jon Rodriguez-Antiguedad, Moath Hamed, Jana Huang, Marianthi Breza, Ashar Rasheed, Natascha Bahr, Harutyan Madoev, Ana Westenberger, Joanne Trinh, Katja Lohmann, Christine Klein, Connie Marras, Olga Waln. Genotype-Phenotype Relations for the Episodic Ataxia Genes: MDSGene Systematic Review. 2023. European Journal of Neurology. Doi: 1111/ene.1596

 

  1. Nadja Baalmann, Malte Spielmann, Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach, Britta Hanker, Julia Schmidt, Christina Maria Lill, Yorck Hellenbroich, Katja Lohmann, Joanne Trinh, Irina Hüning. Phenotypic specificity in patients with neurodevelopmental delay does not correlate with diagnostic yield of trio-exome sequencing. European Journal of Medical Genetics doi: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2023.104774

 

  1. Theresa Lüth, Carolin Gabbert, Inke R. König, Amke Caliebe, Sebastian Koch, Björn-Hergen Laabs, Faycel Hentati, Samia Ben Sassi, Rim Amouri, Malte Spielmann, Christine Klein, Anne Grünewald, Matthew J. Farrer, Joanne Trinh. Interaction of mitochondrial polygenic score and environmental factors in LRRK2 p.Gly2019Ser parkinsonism. Movement Disorders. doi: 10.1002/mds.29563

 

  1. Carolin Gabbert, Susen Schaake, Theresa Lüth, Christoph Much, Christine Klein, Jan O. Aasly, Matthew J. Farrer, Joanne Trinh. GBA in Parkinson’s disease: variant detection and pathogenicity scoring matters. BMC Genomics. doi: 10.1186/s12864-023-09417-y

 

  1. Paula Saffie, Katja Lohmann, Yasmin Hirmas Frauke Hinrichs, Mirja Thomsen, Marcelo Kauffman, Theresa Lüth, Joanne Trinh, Ana Westenberger, Pedro Chaná-Cuevas, Christine Klein. Shaking up ataxia: FGF14 and RFC1 repeat expansions in affected and unaffected members of a Chilean family. 2023. Movement Disorders. doi:10.1002/mds.29390.

 

  1. Suzanne Lesage and Joanne Trinh. Special Issue “Parkinson's Disease: Genetics and Pathogenesis”. Genes (Basel). 2023 Mar 17;14(3):737. doi: 10.3390/genes14030737.
  2. Max Borsche, Marija Dulovic-Mahlow, Hauke Baumann, Sinem Tunc, Theresa Lüth, Susen Schaake, Selin Özcakir, Ana Westenberger, Alexander Münchau, Evelyn Knappe, Joanne Trinh, Norbert Brüggemann, Katja Lohmann. POLG2-linked mitochondrial disease: Functional insights from new mutation carriers and review of the literature. Cerebellum. doi: 10.1007/s12311-023-01557-x.
  3. Carolin Gabbert, Inke R. König, Theresa Lüth, Meike Kasten, Fox Insight Study, Anne Grünewald, Christine Klein, Joanne Trinh. Lifestyle factors and clinical severity of Parkinson’s disease. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-31531-w
  4. Joanne Trinh, Andrew Hicks, Inke König, Sylvie Delcambre, Theresa Lüth, Susen Schaake, Kobi Wasner, Jenny Ghelfi, Max Borsche, Carles Vilariño-Güell, Faycel Hentati, Elisabeth Luisa Germer, Peter Bauer, Masashi Takanashi, Vladimir Kostić, Anthony E Lang, Peter Pramstaller, Alex Rajput, Nobutaka Hattori, Matthew Farrer, Katja Lohmann, Hansi Weissensteiner, Patrick May, Christine Klein, Anne Grünewald. MtDNA heteroplasmy distinguishes disease manifestation in PINK1/PRKN-linked Parkinson’s disease. 2022. Brain. Dec 7;awac464. doi: 10.1093/brain/awac464
  5. Joanne Trinh, Theresa Lüth, Susen Schaake, Joshua Laβ, Björn-Hergen Laabs, Kathleen Schlüter, Jelena Pozojevic, Ronnie Tse, Inke R. König, Roland Dominic Jamora, Raymond L. Rosales, Norbert Brüggemann, Gerard Saranza, Cid Czarina E. Diesta, Frank J. Kaiser, Christel Depienne, Christopher Pearson, Ana Westenberger, Christine Klein. Mosaic divergent repeat interruptions in XDP influence repeat stability and disease onset. 2022. doi: 10.1093/brain/awac160
  6. Theresa Lüth, Simon Graspeuntner, Susen Schaake, Ronnie Tse, Christine Klein, Georg Griesinger, Joanne Trinh*, Jan Rupp*. Analysis of the vaginal microbiota using third-generation sequencing as a tool for clinical decision making in in-vitro fertilization. 2022 Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. doi: 10.1007/s10815-022-02628-4
  7. Angela Rosenbohm, Hendrik Pott, Mirja Thomsen, Haloom Rafehi, Isabel Silveira, Alexander Volk, Kathrin Mueller, Jochen Weishaupt, Sabine Kaya, Holger Tönnies, Philip Seibler, Katja Zschiedrich, Susen Schaake, Ana Westenberger, Christine Zühlke, Christel Depienne, Joanne Trinh, Albert C Ludolph, Christine Klein, Melanie Bahlo, Katja Lohmann. Familial Cerebellar Ataxia and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Frontotemporal Dementia with DAB1 and C9ORF72 Repeat Expansions: An 18-Year Study. Movement Disorders. doi: 10.1002/mds.29221

 

  1. Theresa Lüth, Susen Schaake, Anne Grünewald, Patrick May, Joanne Trinh*, Hansi Weissensteiner*. Benchmarking somatic variant calling with long-read data on mitochondrial DNA. Frontiers in Genetics. 2022. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.887644

 

  1. Joanne Trinh, Emma L. Schymanski, Semra Smajic, Meike Kasten, Esther Sammler, Anne Grünewald. Molecular mechanisms defining penetrance of LRRK2-associated Parkinson’s disease. 2022. doi: 10.1515/medgen-2022-2127 (in press)
  2. Kobi Wasner, Semra Smajic, Jenny Ghelfi, Sylvie Delcambre, Cesar A. Prada-Medina, Aleksandar Rakovic, Ibrahim Boussaad, Giuseppe Arena, Joanne Trinh, Nassima Ouzren, Katja Badanjak, Patrycja Mulica, Jean-Jacques Gérardy, Masashi Takanashi, Michel Mittelbronn, Philip Seibler, Nobutaka Hattori, Paul Antony, Christine Klein,  Malte Spielmann, Sandro L. Pereira, and Anne Grünewald. Parkin Deficiency Impairs Mitochondrial DNA Dynamics and Propagates Inflammation. Movement Disorders doi: 10.1002/mds.29025
  3. Jelena Pozojevic, Shela Marie Algodon, Joseph Neos Cruz, Joanne Trinh, Norbert Brüggemann, Joshua Laas, Karen Grütz, Susen Schaake, Ronnie Tse, Veronica Yumiceba, Nathalie Kruse, Kristin Schulz, Raymond L Rosales, Roland Dominic Jamora, Cid Czarina E Diesta, Jakob Matschke, Markus Glatzel, Philip Seibler, Kristian Händler, Aleksandar Rakovic, Henriette Kirchner, Malte Spielmann, Frank J Kaiser, Ana Westenberger, Christine Klein. Transcriptional alterations in X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism caused by the SVA retrotransposon. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. doi: 10.3390/ijms23042231
  4. Theresa Lüth*, Joshua Laβ*, Susen Schaake, Inken Wohlers, Jelena Pozojevic, Ronnie Tse, Charles Reyes, Hauke Busch, Christine Klein, Ana Westenberger, and Joanne Trinh. Elucidating Hexanucleotide Repeat Number and Methylation within the X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP)-Related SVA Retrotransposon in TAF1 with Nanopore Sequencing. 2022 Jan 11;13(1):126. doi: 10.3390/genes13010126.
  5. Charles Reyes, Theresa Lüth, Joanne Trinh. Analysis of a Hexanucleotide Repeat Domain in the TAF1 SVA Retrotransposon in X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism. Genomic Structural Variants in Nervous System Disorders. Springer Protocols Book Chapter. dOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2357-2_8
  6. Carolin Gabbert, Inke König, Theresa Lüth, Beke Kolms, Meike Kasten, Fox Insight Study, Anne Grünewald, Christine Klein, Joanne Trinh. Coffee, smoking and aspirin are associated with age at onset in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neurology. 2022. doi: 10.1007/s00415-022-11041-x.
  7. Theresa Lüth, Kobi Wasner, Christine Klein, Susen Schaake, Ronnie Tse, Sandro Pereira, Joshua Lass, Lasse Sinkkonen, Anne Grünewald, Joanne Trinh. Nanopore single-molecule sequencing for mitochondrial DNA methylation: Investigating Parkin-associated Parkinsonism as a proof of concept. Frontiers Aging Neuroscience. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.713084
  8. Tatiana Usnich, Eva-Juliane Vollstedt, Nathalie Schell, Volha Skrahina, Xenia Bogdanovic, Hanaa Gaber, Toni Förster, Andreas Heuer, Natalia Koleva-Alazeh, Ilona Csoti, A. Nazli Basak, Sibel Ertan, Gencer Genc, Peter Bauer, Katja Lohmann, Anne Grünewald, Emma Schymanski,  Joanne Trinh, Susen Schaake, Daniela Berg, Doreen Gruber, Stuart Isaacson, Andrea A. Kühn, Brit Mollenhauer, David Pedrosa, Kathrin Reetz, Esther Sammler, Enza Maria Valente, Franco Valzania, Jens Volkman, Simone Zittel, Norbert Brüggemann, Meike Kasten, Arndt Rolfs, Christine Klein on behalf of the LIPAD Study Group. LIPAD (LRRK2/Luebeck International Parkinson’s Disease) Study Protocol: Deep Phenotyping of an International Genetic Cohort. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.710572
  9. Charles Jourdan Reyes, Björn-Hergen Laabs, Susen Schaake, Theresa Lüth, Raphaela Ardicoglu, Aloysius Domingo, Mark Angelo C. Ang, MD, Aleksandar Rakovic, Heike Pawlack, Karen Grütz, Daniel Alvarez-Fischer, Roland Dominic Jamora, Raymond L. Rosales, Imke Weyers, Inke R. König, Norbert Brüggemann, Christine Klein, and Ana Westenberger, Valerija Dobricic, Joanne Trinh. Brain regional differences in hexanucleotide repeat length in X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism using nanopore sequencing. Neurology Genetics. 2021. DOI: doi.org/10.1212/NXG.0000000000000608
  10. Dongbing Lai, Babak Alipanahi, Pierre Fontanillas, Tae-Hwi Schwantes-An, Jan Aasly,  Roy N. Alcalay,  Gary W. Beecham,  Daniela Berg, , Susan Bressman,  Alexis Brice,  Kathrin Brockman, Lorraine Clark,  Sayantan Das,  Vivianna Van Deerlin,  Matthew Farrer,  Joanne Trinh,  Thomas Gasser, Stefano Goldwurm,  Emil Gustavsson,  Christine Klein,  Anthony E. Lang,  William Langston,  Jeanne Latourelle, Timothy Lynch,  Karen Marder,  Connie Marras,  Eden R. Martin,  Cory Y. McLean, Helen Mejia-Santana,  Eric Molho,  Richard H. Myers,  Karen Nuytemans,  Laurie Ozelius,  Haydeh Payami,  Deborah Raymond,  Ekaterina Rogaeva,  Michael P. Rogers,  Owen A. Ross, Ali Samii,  Rachel Saunders-Pullman,  Birgitt Schüle,  Claudia Schulte, , William K. Scott,  Caroline Tanner,  Eduardo Tolosa,  Dolores Vilas,  John Trojanowski,  The andMe Research Team Ryan Uitti,  Jeffery M. Vance,  Naomi P. Visanji,  Zbigniew K. Wszolek,  Cyrus P. Zabetian,  Anat Mirelman,  Nir Giladi,  Avi Orr Urtreger,  Paul Cannon,  Brian Fiske,  Tatiana Foroud. Genome-wide association studies of LRRK2 modifiers of Parkinson’s disease. Annals of Neurology. 2021 doi: 10.1002/ana.26094             
  11. Marta San Luciano, Caroline M Tanner, Cheryl Meng, Connie Marra, Samuel M Goldman, Anthony E Lang, Eduardo Tolosa, Birgitt Schüle, J William Langston, Alexis Brice, Jean-Christophe Corvol, Stefano Goldwurm, Christine Klein, Simone Brockman, Daniela Berg, Kathrin Brockmann, Joachim J Ferreira, Meriem Tazir, George D Mellick, Carolyn M Sue, Kazuko Hasegawa, Eng King Tan, Susan Bressman, Rachel Saunders-Pullman, Michael J. Fox Foundation LRRK2 Cohort Consortium#. Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Use and LRRK2 Parkinson's Disease Penetrance. Mov Disord. 2020 Oct;35(10):1755-1764. doi: 10.1002/mds.28189. Epub 2020 Jul 14. PubMed PMID: 32662532.#Listed as collaborator
  12. Christina Wittke, Sonja Petkovic, Valerija Dobricic, Susen Schaake, Gesine Respondek, Anne Weissbach, Harutyun Madoev, Joanne Trinh, Neele Kuhnke, Katja Lohmann, Marija Dulovic-Mahlow, Connie Marras, Inke R König, Maria Stamelou, Vincenzo Bonifati, Christina M Lill, Meike Kasten,Günter Höglinger, Christine Klein. Genotype-Phenotype Relations for the atypical parkinsonism genes ATP13A2, DNAJC6, FBXO7, SYNJ1, VPS13C and DCTN1: MDSGene Systematic Review. Movement Disorders. 2020 doi: 1002/mds.28517
  13. Marija Dulovic-Mahlow*, Inke R. König*, Joanne Trinh*, Sokhna Haissatou Diaw, Peter P. Urban, Evelyn Knappe, Neele Kuhnke, Lena-Christin Ingwersen, Frauke Hinrichs, Joachim Weber, Patrycja Kupnicka, Alexander Balck, Sylvie Delcambre, Tillman Vollbrandt, Anne Grünewald, Christine Klein, Philip Seibler, Katja Lohmann. Discordant monozygotic Parkinson disease twins: Role of mitochondrial integrity. Annals of Neurology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.25942
  14. Theresa Lüth, Inke König, Anne Grünewald, Meike Kasten, Christine Klein, Faycel Hentati, Matthew Farrer, Joanne Trinh. Age at onset of LRRK2 p.Gly2019Ser is related to environmental and lifestyle factors. Movement Disorders. 2020. doi:10.1002/mds.28238 2020
  15. Sylvie Delcambre, Jenny Ghelfi, Nassima Ouzren, Léa Grandmougin, Catherine Delbrouck, Philip Seibler, Kobi Wasner, Jan O. Aasly, Christine Klein, Joanne Trinh, Sandro L. Pereira, Anne Grünewald. Mitochondrial Mechanisms of LRRK2 penetrance. Frontiers in Neurology. 2020 Aug 25;11:881. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00881
  16. Anthony Lang, Julien F. Bally, David P. Breen, Susen Schaake, Joanne Trinh, Aleksander Rakovic, Christine Klein. Mild dopa-responsive dystonia in heterozygous tyrosine hydroxylase mutation carrier: Evidence of symptomatic enzyme deficiency? Response from the authors. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 2020 April. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2020.03.026
  17. Joanne Trinh, Christine Klein. Needle in a haystack: the common can inform the rare in restless legs syndrome. Annals of Neurology. 2020 Feb;87(2):172-174.
  18. Julien F. Bally, David P. Breen, Susen Schaake, Joanne Trinh, Aleksander Rakovic, Katja Lohmann, Christine Klein, Anthony E. Lang. Mild dopa-responsive dystonia in heterozygous tyrosine hydrozylase mutation carrier: evidence of enzyme deficiency? Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 2020 Jan 30;71:44-45.
  19. Clara Berenguer-Escuder, Dajana Grossmann, Francois Massart, Paul Antony, Lena Burbulla, Enrico Glaab, Sophie Imhoff, Joanne Trinh, Philip Seibler, Christine Klein, Anne Grünewald, Rejko Krüger. Mutations of Miro1 cause alterations of ER-mitochondria contact sites. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2019 Dec; 8(12): 2226.
  20. Elisabeth Luisa Germer*, Sophie Imhoff*, Carles Vilariño-Güell, Meike Kasten, Philip Seibler, International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC), Christine Klein, Joanne Trinh. The role of rare coding variants in Parkinson’s disease GWAS loci. Frontiers of Neurology. 2019 Dec 13;10:1284.
  21. Joanne Trinh, Sophie Imhoff, Marija Dulovic, Krishna Kumar Kandaswamy, Vera Tadic, Jochen Schäfer, Valerija Dobricic, Achim Nolte, Martin Werber, Arndt Rolfs, Alexander Münchau, Christine Klein, Katja Lohmann, Norbert Brüggemann. Novel NAXE variants as a cause for neurometabolic disorder: Implications for treatment. Journal of Neurology. 2020 Mar;267(3):770-782.
  22. Nassima Ouzren, Sylvie Delcambre, Jenny Ghelfi, Philip Seibler, Matthew J. Farrer, Inke R. König, Jan O. Aasly, Joanne Trinh, Christine Klein, Anne Grünewald. Somatic mtDNA major arc deletions discriminate manifesting from non-manifesting LRRK2 G2019S mutation carriers. Annals of Neurology. 2019. Aug;86(2):324-326.
  23. Emmeline Brown, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Joanne Trinh, Mie Rizig, Mike Nalls, Etienne Leveille, Jennifer Ruskey, Hallgeir Jonvik, Sara Bandres-Ciga, Sharin Hassin-Baer, Kathrin Brockmann, John Hardy, Andrew Singleton, Roy alcalay, Thomas Gasser, Donald G Grosset, Nigel M. Williams, Alan M. Pittman, Ziv Gan-Or, Ruben Fernandez-Santiago, Alexis Brice, Suzanne Lesage, Matthew James Farrer, Nick Wood, Huw Morris. Analysis of DNM3 and VAMP4 as genetic modifiers of LRRK2 Parkinson’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging. Doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.07.002
  24. Marija Dulovic Mahlow*, Joanne Trinh*, Krishna Kumar Kandaswamy, Geir Julius Braathen, Martin Werber, Victor Krajka, Oyvind Lovold Busk, Gabriela Oprea, Nataliya DiDonato, Maximillan E.R. Weiss, Anne-Karin Kahlert, Shivendra Kishore, Kristian Tveten, Melissa Vos*, Arndt Rolfs*, Katja Lohmann*. De-novo mutations in TAOK1 cause neurodevelopmental disorders. American Journal of Human Genetics. 2019 Jul 3;105(1):213-220
  25. Demis A. Kia, Marya S. Sabir, Sarah Ahmed, Joanne Trinh, Sara Bandres-Ciga. Analysis of LRP10 in a large series of Parkinson’s disease. Lancet Neurology. 2018 Dec;17(12):1032.
  26. Joanne Trinh, Florentine M J Zeldenrust, Jana Huang, Meike Kasten, Sonja Petkovic, Harut Madoev, Ingo Zorn, Susen Schaake, Inke R. König, Lars Bertram, Katja Lohmann, Christina M. Lill, Christine Klein, Connie Marras. Genotype-phenotype relations for the Parkinson’s disease genes SNCA, LRRK2, VPS35: MDSGene systematic review. Movement disorders. 2018 Dec;33(12):1857-1870.
  27. Joanne Trinh*, Katja Lohmann*, Hauke Baumann, Alexander Balck, Max Borsche, Norbert Bruggemann, Leon Dure, Sinem Tunc, Jannik Prasuhn, Heike Pawlack, Sophie Imhoff, Christina M Lill, Meike Kasten, Peter Bauer, Arndt Rolfs, Christine Klein. Utility and implications of exome sequencing in early-onset Parkinson’s disease. Movement disorders. 2019 Jan;34(1):133-137.
  28. Joanne Trinh, Krishna Kumar Kandaswamy, Martin Werber, Maxmillan E.R. Weiss, Katja Lohmann, Arndt Rolfs. Novel pathogenic variants and multiple molecular diagnoses in neurodevelopmental disorders. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 2019 Jun 25;11(1):11.
  29. Joanne Trinh, Irina Hüning, Zafer Yüksel, Nadja Baalmann, Sophie Imhoff, Christine Klein, Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach, Katja Lohmann. A KAT6A variant in a family with autosomal dominantly inherited microcephaly and developmental delay. Journal of Human Genetics. 2018 Sep;63(9):997-1001

 

  1. Eunju Seong, Ryan Insolera, Marija Dulovic, Erik-Jan Kamsteeg, Joanne Trinh, Norbert Brüggemann, Erin Sandford, Sheng Li, Ayse Bilge Ozel, Jun Z. Li, Tamison Jewett, Anneke Maat-Kievit, Vikram Shakkottai, Christine Klein, Catherine Collins, Katja Lohmann, Bart P. van de Warrenburg, Margit Burmeister. Mutations in VPS13D lead to a new recessive ataxia with spasticity and mitochondrial defects.. Annals of Neurology. 2018 Jun;83(6):1075-1088.
  2. Joanne Trinh, Vera Tadic, Christine Klein. How Do I Confirm that a New Mutation is Pathogenic? Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. 2018 Mar 23;5(2):229.

 

  1. Joanne Trinh, Irina Huening, Nadja Budler, Volker Hingst, Katja Lohmann, Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach. A novel de novo mutation in CSNK2A1: Reinforcing the link to neurodevelopmental abnormalities and dysmorphic features. Journal of Human Genetics. 2017 Nov;62(11):1005-1006

 

  1. Emil K. Gustavsson, Joanne Trinh, Marna McKenzie, Stephanie Bortnick, Matthew J. Farrer, and Jan O. Aasly. Genetic Identification in Early-Onset Parkinsonism among Norwegian Patients. Movement disorders clinical practice. 2017 May 23;4(4):499-508

 

  1. Joanne Trinh, Emil Gustavsson, Stephanie Bortnick, Carles Vilariño-Güell, Jeanne Latourelle, Marna McKenzie, Chelsea Szu Tu, Ekaterina Nosova, Jaskaran Khinda , Suzanne Lesage,  Alexis Brice, Jan Aasly, Laura Parkkinen, Tatiana Foroud , Rick H Myers, Austen Milnerwood, Samia Ben Sassi, Emna Hentati, Fatma Nabli, Emna Farhat, Rim Amouri, Faycal Hentati and Matthew J Farrer. DNM3 modifies age of onset in LRRK2 parkinsonism: a linkage and association study. Lancet Neurology. 2016 Sept; 15(12): 1248-1256.

 

  1. Emil K Gustavsson, Joanne Trinh, Ilaria Guella, Chelsea Szu-Tu, Jaskaran Khinda, Chin-Hsien Lin, Ruey-Meei Wu, A. Jon Stoessl, Silke Appel-Cresswell, Martin McKeown, Alexander H. Rajput, Ali H. Rajput, Maria Skaalum Petersen, Beom S. Jeon, Jan O. Aasly, Matthew Farrer. DCTN1 p.K56R in progressive supranuclear palsy. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 2016 Jul;28:56-61

 

  1. Joanne Trinh, Ilaria Guella, Marna Mckenzie, Emil K Gustavsson, Chelsea Szu Tu, Maria Petersen, Alex Rajput, Ali H. Rajput, Martin McKeown, Beom S. Jeon, Jan O Aasly, Soraya Bardien, Matthew J. Farrer. Novel LRRK2 mutations in parkinsonism. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 2015 Sep;21(9):1119-21.

 

  1. Joanne Trinh, Carles Vilarino-Guell, Owen A Ross. A commentary on fine mapping and resequencing of the PARK16 locus in Parkinson disease. Journal of Human Genetics. 2015 Aug;60(8):405-6

 

  1. Joanne Trinh, Matthew Farrer, Owen A Ross, Ilaria Guella. LRRK2-Related Parkinson Disease. 2006 Nov 2 [Updated 2014 Dec 11]. In: Pagon RA, Adam MP, Ardinger HH, et al., editors. GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993-2014. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1208/ (years 2015-2019)

 

  1. Emil Gustavsson, Ilaria Guella, Joanne Trinh, Chelsea Szu-Tu, Alex Rajput, Ali H. Rajput, John C Steele, Martin McKeown, Beom S. Jeon, Jan O. Aasly, Matthew J Farrer. Genetic variability of the retromer cargo recognition complex in parkinsonism. Movement Disorders. 2015 Apr;30(4):580-4

 

  1. Ana S. Cohen, Samantha Wilson, Joanne Trinh, Cynthia Ye. Detecting somatic mosaicism: considerations and clinical implications. Clinical genetics. 015 Jun;87(6):554-62.

 

  1. Emil Gustavsson, Joanne Trinh, Ilaria Guella, Carles Vilarino-Guell, Silke Cresswell, Jon Stoessl, Joseph Tsui, Martin McKeown, Alex Rajput, Ali Rajput, Jan Aasly, Matthew Farrer. DNAJC13 genetic variants in Parkinsonism. Movement Disorders. 2015 Feb;30(2):273-8.

 

  1. Joanne Trinh, Ilaria Guella, Matthew Farrer. Disease penetrance of late-onset parkinsonism: a meta-analyses. JAMA Neurology. 2014 Dec;71(12):1535-9.

 

  1. Joanne Trinh, Emil Gustavsson, Ilaria Guella, Carles Vilariño-Güell, Daniel Evans, Mary Encarnacion, Holly Sherman, Faycal Hentati, Matthew Farrer. The role of SNCA and MAPT in Parkinson disease and LRRK2 parkinsonism in the Tunisian Arab-Berber population. European Journal of Neurology. 2014 Nov;21(11):e91-2.

 

  1. Faycel Hentati*, Joanne Trinh*, Christina Thompson, Ekaterina Nosova, Matthew Farrer, Jan Aasly. LRRK2 parkinsonism in Tunisia and Norway: A comparative study of disease penetrance. Neurology. 2014 Aug 5;83(6):568-9.

 

  1. Joanne Trinh, Rim Amouri, John E. Duda, James F. Morley, Matt Read, Alan Donald, Carles Vilariño-Güell, Christina Thompson, Chelsea Szu Tu, Emil K Gustavsson, Samia B Sassi, Emna Hentati, Mourad Zouari, Emna Farhat, Fatma Nabli, Faycel Hentati, Matthew Farrer. A comparative study of Parkinson’s disease and LRRK2 p.G2019S parkinsonism. Neurobiology of Aging. 2014 May;35(5):1125-31

 

  1. Carles Vilariño-Güell, Alex Rajput, Austen J. Milnerwood, Brinda Shah, Chelsea Szu-Tu, Joanne Trinh, et al 2013. DNAJC13 mutations in Parkinson disease. Human Molecular Genetics. 2014 Apr 1;23(7):1794-801

 

  1. Joanne Trinh and Matthew Farrer. Advances in the Genetics of Parkinson disease. Nature Neurology Review. 2013 Aug;9(8):445-54.

 

  1. Joanne Trinh, Carles Vilariño-Güell, Alan Donald, Brinda Shah, Irene Yu, Chelsea Szu-Tu, Jan O Aasly, Ruey-Meei Wu, Faycel Hentati, Ali Rajput, Alex Rajput, Matthew J. Farrer. STX6 rs1411478 is not associated with increased risk of Parkinson Disease. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 2013 May;19(5):563-5.

 

  1. Silke Appel-Cresswell, Carles Vilariño-Güell, Irene Yu, Brinda Shah, David Weir, Christina Thompson, Chelsea Szu-Tu, Joanne Trinh, Jan O. Aasly, Alex Rajput , Ali H. Rajput , A. Jon Stoessl,  Matthew J. Farrer. Alpha-synuclein p.H50Q, a novel pathogenic mutation for Parkinson disease. Movement Disorders. 2013 Jun;28(6):811-3. 

 

  1. Jeffery S. C. Chu, Maja Tarailo-Graovac, Di Zhang, Jun Wang, Bora Uyar, Domena Tu, Joanne Trinh, David L. Baillie, Nansheng Chen. Fine tuning of RFX/DAF-19-regulated target gene expression through binding to multiple sites in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nucleic Acids Research. 2012 Jan;40(1):53-64.

 

  1. Marie Morimoto, Christele du Souich, Joanne Trinh, Keith McLarren, Cornelius F. Boerkoel, Glenda Hendson. Expression of NSDHL in human tissues. Journal of Molecular Histology 2012 Feb;43(1):95-106.

Professor Christine Klein, MD, FEAN
Schilling Professor of Neurogenetics and Neurology
Director of the Institute of Neurogenetics
University of Luebeck and
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
BMF, Building 67, Room 067.000 10 047.00
Ratzeburger Allee 160
Campus Luebeck
23538 Luebeck
Germany
Tel: +49-451-31018200
Fax:+49-451-31018204
email: christine.klein@neuro.uni-luebeck.de
www: http://neurogenetics-luebeck.de

Professor Matthew Farrer, PhD
Professor Of Neurology (Molecular Neuroscience)
Lauren and Lee Fixel Chair in Parkinson’s disease
Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases,
McKnight Brain Institute, L5-101D,
1149 Newell Drive,
Gainesville, FL 32610.
UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute,
Director, Clinical Genomics Program
University of Florida
Email: m.farrer@ufl.edu
Tel: 352.273.5611
C: 352.538.8361

Professor Anne Grunewald
Professor and FNR ATTRACT Fellow Head Molecular and Functional Neurobiology Group UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG
LUXEMBOURG CENTRE FOR SYSTEMS BIOMEDICINE
Campus Belval | House of Biomedicine 2
6, avenue du Swing
L-4367 Belvaux
Tel : +352 46 66 44 9793
Email: anne.gruenewald@uni.lu
www: http://lcsb.uni.lu

  • Completed Master Theses n=5
  • Completed MD Thesis n=1
  • Current MD Theses in preparation n=1
  • Current PhD Theses in preparation n=2
Trinh J, Grunewald A, Wasner K, Hicks A, Bauer P, Imhoff S, Kandaswamy K, Ouzren N, Werber M, Weiss M, Rolfs A, Pramstaller P, Seibler P, Lohmann K, Klein C. Deep mitochondrial sequencing in Parkinson’s disease reveals possible genetic modifiers of reduced penetrance in Parkin/PINK1 mutation carriers. Poster Presentation. International Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Congress. September 22-26 2019, Nice, France. Trinh J, Grunewald A, Wasner K, Hicks A, Bauer P, Imhoff S, Kandaswamy K, Ouzren N, Werber M, Weiss M, Rolfs A, Pramstaller P, Seibler P, Lohmann K, Klein C. Deep mitochondrial sequencing in Parkinson’s disease reveals possible genetic modifiers of reduced penetrance in Parkin/PINK1 mutation carriers. Poster Presentation. Annual Meeting of The European Society of Human Genetics. June 16-19 2018. Milan, Italy. Trinh J, Grunewald A, Wasner K, Hicks A, Bauer P, Imhoff S, Kandaswamy K, Ouzren N, Werber M, Weiss M, Rolfs A, Pramstaller P, Seibler P, Lohmann K, Klein C. Deep mitochondrial sequencing in Parkinson’s disease reveals possible genetic modifiers of reduced penetrance in Parkin/PINK1 mutation carriers. Poster Presentation. 68th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics. October 16-20 2018, San Diego, California, USA. Trinh J , Gustavsson E., Guella I., McKenzie M., Bortnick S., Chen B., Sassi S.B., Hentati E., Nabli F., Farhat E., Amouri R., Hentati F., Farrer M.J.. Identification of new genes in consanguineous Tunisian Arab-Berber families with Parkinson disease. Poster Presentation. 66th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics. October 18-22 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Trinh J, Gustavsson E, Guella I, Vilarino-Guell C, Thompson C, Szu Tu C, Han H, Bortnick S, Sherman H, Evans D, Toft M, Petersen M, Aasly J, Hentati F, Farrer MJ. DNM3; a genetic modifier of LRRK2 parkinsonism. Poster Presentation 64th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics. October 18-22 2014, San Diego, California, USA. Gustavsson E, Trinh J, Guella I, Sherman HE, Szu Tu C, Appel Cresswell S, Stoessl AJ, Rajput A, Rajput AH, Aasly JO, Farrer MJ. Analysis of Endosomal Trafficking and Protein Recycling genes in Parkinsonism. Poster Presentation 64th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics . October 18-22 2014, San Diego, California, USA. Trinh J, Evans D, Thompson C, Donald A, Amouri R, Hentati F, Gibson R, Farrer M. Genome-wide linkage analysis and rare variant association methods to identify LRRK2 p.G2019S age of onset modifiers. Poster Presentation at Genome Informatics. October 29-November2; 2013. Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA. Trinh J, Evans D, Thompson C, Donald A, Amouri R, Hentati F, Gibson R, Farrer M. Identification of LRRK2 G2019S modifiers of disease penetrance. 3rd World Parkinson Congress. October 1-4, 2013. Montreal, Canada. (selected for Poster Tour) Trinh J, Amouri R, Duda JE, Morley JF, Read M, Donald A, Vilariño-Güell C, Thompson C, Szu Tu C, Gustavsson EK, Sassi SB, Hentati E, Zouari M, Farhat E, Nabli F, Hentati F, Farrer M. A comparative study of LRRK2 G2019S parkinsonism and idiopathic Parkinson’s disease in Tunisia. 3rd World Parkinson Congress. October 1-4, 2013. Montreal, Canada. Trinh J, Evans D, Thompson C, Donald A, Shah B, Szu-Tu C, Pishotta F, Vilarino-Guell C, Amouri R, Hentati F, Gibson R, Farrer M. Disease penetrance of LRRK2 G2019S: Study of Arab Berbers. Life Sciences Institute Graduate Student Association. March 2012. Vancouver, BC. Trinh J, Evans D, Thompson C, Donald A, Shah B, Szu-Tu C, Pishotta F, Vilarino-Guell C, Amouri R, Hentati F, Gibson R, Farrer M. Disease penetrance of LRRK2 G2019S: Study of Arab Berbers. Medical Genetics Research Day. November 2012, Vancouver BC. Trinh J, Evans D, Thompson C, Donald A, Shah B, Szu-Tu C, Pishotta F, Vilarino-Guell C, Amouri R, Hentati F, Gibson R, Farrer M. Identification of LRRK2 p.G2019S disease modifiers. 62nd Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics, November 6-10, 2012 in San Francisco, California. Vilarino-Guell C., Rajput A., Appel-Cresswell S., Shah B., Yu I., Thompson C., Szu-Tu C., Trinh J., Encarnacion M., Dickson D. W., Stoessl A. J., Rajput M. L., Farrer M. J., Rajput A. H. Mutations in DNAJ cause autosomal dominant Parkinson disease in the Mennonite community. 62nd Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics, November 6-10, 2012 in San Francisco, California. Trinh, J, Morimoto, M, Hendson, G, McLarren, K, du Souich, C, Boerkoel, C. F. NSDHL deficiency and disease: methyl sterols or cholesterol? 60th Annual ASHG meeting. November 2-6, 2010, Washington, D.C.

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Trinh J. Invited comment on paper by R Saunders-Pullman et al., 2018, Alzheimer Research Forum, 23 Mar 2018. https://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/tracking-lrrk2-parkinsons-progression-better-trial-design#comment-26891 Parkinson’s Foundation Science News. 2017. In Rare Inherited PD, Newly-Identified Gene May Impact Age of Diagnosis. https://www.parkinson.org/blog/science-news/science-article/rare-inherited-parkinsons Michael J Fox Foundation. 2017. Genetic Switch May Determine Age of LRRK2 Parkinson’s Onset. https://www.michaeljfox.org/news/genetic-switch-may-determine-age-lrrk2-parkinsons-onset