---
title: "The Movement Disorder Clinic (MDC)"
id: "7467"
type: "cohort"
slug: "the-movement-disorder-clinic-mdc"
published_at: "2025-01-06T19:27:03+00:00"
modified_at: "2025-01-06T20:12:01+00:00"
url: "https://dss.niagads.org/cohorts/the-movement-disorder-clinic-mdc/"
markdown_url: "https://dss.niagads.org/cohorts/the-movement-disorder-clinic-mdc.md"
excerpt: "The Movement Disorder Clinic (MDC) at Washington University in Saint Louis (St. Louis, MO, USA) recruits and assess longitudinally participants with movements disorders. The Genetics of the Parkinson’s Disease study involved longitudinal collection of biofluids, clinical assessments, neuropsychological testing, neuroimaging,..."
taxonomy_cohort_countries:
  - "United States of America"
---

## Description

The Movement Disorder Clinic (MDC) at Washington University in Saint Louis (St. Louis, MO, USA) recruits and assess longitudinally participants with movements disorders.

The Genetics of the Parkinson’s Disease study involved longitudinal collection of biofluids, clinical assessments, neuropsychological testing, neuroimaging, and, for those willing to donate the brain upon death, collection of autopsied brains.

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- [NG00142-Plasma Cell-Free RNA Transcriptomics for AD and Related Dementia](https://dss.niagads.org/datasets/ng00142/) This dataset includes 119 samples from healthy control participants without dementia, 65 samples from presymptomatic AD participants (CDR®=0 at draw and current clinical diagnostic of AD), 42 samples from early… [Learn more](https://dss.niagads.org/datasets/ng00142/)

## Related Studies

- [sa000052 - Plasma Cell-Free RNA Transcriptomics for AD and Related Dementias](https://dss.niagads.org/studies/sa000052/) Plasma samples were obtained from the Knight-ADRC and the Movement Disorder Clinic (MDC) at Washington University in Saint Louis repositories. These are deeply phenotyped cohorts, both clinically and molecularly with… [Learn more](https://dss.niagads.org/studies/sa000052/)

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- [snd10085 - Plasma Cell-Free RNA Transcriptomics](https://dss.niagads.org/sample-sets/snd10085/) 400 samples were sequenced using Illumina NovaSeq 6000 and Illumina HiSeq 2500. The dataset comprises raw sequencing data in FASTQ format and normalized gene counts for all samples. The normalized… [Learn more](https://dss.niagads.org/sample-sets/snd10085/)

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