Article
The role of ATP13A2 in Parkinson's disease: Clinical phenotypes and molecular mechanisms.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 May 2015
Park Jin-Sung, Blair Nicholas F, Sue Carolyn M
Abstract excerpt
The importance of ATP13A2 (PARK9) in Parkinson's disease (PD) has emerged with the discovery that mutations in this gene cause Kufor-Rakeb syndrome, an autosomal recessive, juvenile-onset form of parkinsonism associated with the additional clinical triad of spasticity, supranuclear gaze palsy, and dementia. Eleven independent kindreds with homozygous or compound heterozygous ATP13A2 mutations have been...
Topics
- Heterozygote
- Homeostasis
- Humans
- Lysosomes
- Mitochondria
- Mutation
- Parkinson Disease
- Phenotype
- Proton-Translocating ATPases
- Substantia Nigra
- Zinc
- alpha-Synuclein
