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William J. Scotton

South African Medical Research CouncilORCID 0000-0003-0607-3190Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 1 Genetics· 1

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Organism:human· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Alejandro Martínez-CarrascoiD· 2 shared Raquel RealiD· 2 shared Alastair John NoyceiD· 1 shared Alina Jama· 1 shared Amica Corda Müller-NedebockiD· 1 shared Ana Luisa Gil-MartíneziD· 1 shared Anastasia IllarionovaiD· 1 shared Andrew SingletoniD· 1 shared

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintDec 27, 2025

Identification of common variants influencing risk of the three-repeat tauopathy Pick's disease: a genome wide association study.

William J. Scotton, Rebecca R. Valentino, Alejandro Martínez-Carrasco…·Maryam Shoai

This study conducts a GWAS on Pick's disease and identifies two SNPs associated with risk, though not at genome-wide significance, suggesting potential genetic factors beyond MAPT mutations.

DOI 10.64898/2025.12.21.25342758

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Geneticsnpj Parkinson s DiseasePeer-reviewedMar 4, 2023

The IPDGC/GP2 Hackathon - an open science event for training in data science, genomics, and collaboration using Parkinson's disease data

Hampton L. Leonard, Ruqaya Murtadha, Alejandro Martínez-Carrasco…·Alastair John Noyce

The paper describes a virtual hackathon event that brought together early career scientists to develop tools for Parkinson's disease research using open science principles.

7 citations

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