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Parkinsonism, Lrrk2 G2019S, and tau neuropathology.
Neurology - 24 Oct 2006
Rajput A, Dickson D W, Robinson C A, Ross O A, Dächsel J C, Lincoln S J, Cobb S A, Rajput M L, Farrer M J
Abstract excerpt
Lrrk2 G2019S is predominantly associated with alpha-synuclein-immunopositive Lewy body pathology. We have identified Family SK where Lrrk2 G2019S segregates with slowly progressive parkinsonism and the affected proband has tau-immunopositive neurofibrillary tangle pathology. Thus alpha-synucleinopathy and tauopathy, the predominant pathologies associated with parkinsonism, may be alternate outcomes of the same...
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