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Evaluation of Strategies for Measuring Lysosomal Glucocerebrosidase Activity.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Dec 2021
Ysselstein Daniel, Young Tiffany J, Nguyen Maria, Padmanabhan Shalini, Hirst Warren D, Dzamko Nicolas, Krainc Dimitri
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in GBA1, which encode for the protein glucocerebrosidase (GCase), are the most common genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. In addition, growing evidence now suggests that the loss of GCase activity is also involved in onset of all forms of Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and other dementias, such as progranulin-linked frontal temporal dementia. As a...
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