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Genetic variants and animal models in SNCA and Parkinson disease.
Ageing research reviews - 1 May 2014
Deng Hao, Yuan Lamei
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson disease (PD; MIM 168600) is the second most common progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a variety of motor and non-motor features. To date, at least 20 loci and 15 disease-causing genes for parkinsonism have been identified. Among them, the α-synuclein (SNCA) gene was associated with PARK1/PARK4. Point mutations, duplications and triplications in the SNCA gene cause a rare dominant...
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