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α-Synuclein and Parkinsonism: Updates and Future Perspectives.
Current neurology and neuroscience reports - 1 Apr 2017
Rosborough Kaie, Patel Neha, Kalia Lorraine V
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the SNCA gene, which encodes the α-synuclein protein, were the first discovered genetic causes of familial parkinsonism with Lewy pathology. To date, six different SNCA missense mutations as well as multiplications are known to cause parkinsonism. For this review, we performed a literature search to identify all published cases of SNCA-related parkinsonism to provide an updated summary of the...
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