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GBA-Associated Parkinson's Disease and Other Synucleinopathies.
Current neurology and neuroscience reports - 8 Jun 2018
Gan-Or Ziv, Liong Christopher, Alcalay Roy N
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: GBA mutations are the most common known genetic cause of Parkinson's disease (PD). Its biological pathway may be important in idiopathic PD, since activity of the enzyme encoded by GBA, glucocerebrosidase, is reduced even among PD patients without GBA mutations. This article describes the structure and function of GBA, reviews recent literature on the clinical phenotype of GBA PD, and suggests...
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