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Linear regression was used to investigate the relationship between an individual's polygenic score for PD risk alleles and disease age at onset.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>Our polygenic score analysis has identified significant evidence for a polygenic component enriched in the cases of each of 3 independent PD genome‐wide association cohorts (minimum <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> = 3.76 × 10<jats:sup>−6</jats:sup>). Further analysis identified compelling evidence that the average polygenic score in patients with an early disease age at onset was significantly higher than in those with a late age at onset (<jats:italic>p</jats:italic> = 0.00014).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Interpretation</jats:title><jats:p>This provides strong support for a large polygenic contribution to the overall heritable risk of PD and also suggests that early onset forms of the illness are not exclusively caused by highly penetrant Mendelian mutations, but can also be contributed to by an accumulation of common polygenic alleles with relatively low effect sizes. 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