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Paula Saffie Awad

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Chile

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Biography

Paula is a movement disorders neurologist that works in CETRAM (Centro de estudios de trastornos del movimiento) in Chile and studies a PhD in Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. During her career she has been diagnosing and treating patients with rare disease, specially monogenic movement disorders. She is currently working on the characterization of monogenic Parkinson’s Disease in Chile and South of Brazil.

Outputs and publications by Paula Saffie Awad

NeuroBooster Array: A Genome-Wide Genotyping Platform to Study Neurological Disorders Across Diverse Populations
The Illumina NeuroBooster array aims to increase diversity in genetic studies of neurological disorders by providing a comprehensive tool for screening genetic variation in diverse populations.
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Evaluating the performance of polygenic risk profiling across diverse ancestry populations in Parkinson’s disease
Study evaluates polygenic risk score models using 90 risk variants from 78 loci associated with Parkinson’s disease across seven ancestry groups to improve risk prediction accuracy and address disparities.
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