SNCA, synuclein alpha, 6622

N. diseases: 449; N. variants: 66
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Besides other known mutations in the SNCA gene, the rs3857059 variant has also been linked to various neurodegenerative disorders. 27332068 2016
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE These data indicate that although aggregation of PAP and SNCA causes severe neurodegenerative diseases, PAP -/- with absence of the Snca does not appear to interrupt the cerebellar architecture development and zone and stripe pattern formation. 31509576 2019
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Insoluble and fibrillar forms of α-synuclein are the major components of Lewy bodies, a hallmark of several sporadic and inherited neurodegenerative diseases known as synucleinopathies. 25946078 2015
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE SNCA and MAPT genes and environmental factors are important risk factors of Parkinson's disease [PD], the second-most common neurodegenerative disease. 22292029 2012
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Mechanisms involving deregulated processing of proteins such as amyloid beta (Aβ) oligomerization; tau hyperphosphorylation, prion misfolding; α-synuclein accumulation/lewy body formation, chaperone deregulation, acetylcholine depletion, adenosine 2A (A2A) receptor hyperactivation, secretase deregulation, leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) mutation and mitochondrial proteinopathies have deeper implications in neurodegenerative disorders. 31584139 2020
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The second-most common neurodegenerative disease, Parkinson's Disease (PD) has three hallmarks: dysfunctional dopamine transmission due, at least in part, to dopamine neuron degeneration; intracellular inclusions of α-synuclein aggregates; and neuroinflammation. 29551693 2018
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Sncb functions as the physiological antagonist of α-synuclein (Snca), which is involved in the development of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. 29808713 2018
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Aberrant accumulation and self-assembly of α-synuclein are tightly linked to several neurodegenerative diseases called synucleinopathies, including idiopathic Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multiple system atrophy. 28585223 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Protein aggregation is linked with the onset of several neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson's disease (PD), which is associated with the aggregation of α-synuclein (αSyn). 29417650 2018
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE In summary, several leads connecting GBA1 mutations with α-synuclein misprocessing have emerged as potential targets for the treatment of GBA1-related synucleinopathies, and possibly, for non-GBA1-associated neurodegenerative diseases. 22327140 2012
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Parkinson's disease (PD) is an age-dependent neurodegenerative disease that can be caused by genetic mutations in α-synuclein (α-syn) or duplication of wild-type α-syn; PD is characterized by the deposition of α-syn aggregates, indicating a gain of toxicity from accumulation of α-syn. 25552648 2015
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Finally, we explored the steady-state kinetics of a range of disease α-synuclein variants and found that variants involved in neurodegenerative disease exhibited major changes in their enzymatic activity. 28452474 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Alpha-synuclein (α-syn) is a synaptic protein that mutations have been linked to Parkinson's disease (PD), a common neurodegenerative disorder that is caused by the degeneration of the dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). 22537068 2012
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Naturally occurring autoantibodies (NAbs) against a number of potentially disease-associated cellular proteins, including Amyloid-beta1-42 (Abeta1-42), Alpha-synuclein (Asyn), myelin basic protein (MBP), myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG), and S100 calcium binding protein B (S100B) have been suggested to be associated with neurodegenerative disorders, in particular Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). 24586351 2014
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The adverse effects of aging on neuronal Ca2+ regulation are subject to modification by genetic (mutations in presenilins, alpha-synuclein, huntingtin, or Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase; apolipoprotein E isotype, etc.) and environmental (dietary energy intake, exercise, exposure to toxins, etc.) factors that may cause or affect the risk of neurodegenerative disease. 17328689 2007
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Amyloid assemblies of certain proteins, including the Parkinson disease-related protein α-synuclein, are commonly associated with the development and spreading of neurodegenerative diseases, although the nature of the most toxic forms and the mechanisms by which they trigger neurodegeneration remain largely unknown. 29886526 2018
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by fibrillar cytoplasmic aggregates of α-synuclein (i.e., Lewy bodies) and the associated loss of dopaminergic cells in the substantia nigra. 28538683 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Altogether, our study indicates that wild-type alpha-synuclein exerts an antiapoptotic effect in neurons that appears to be abolished by the Parkinson's disease-related mutation, thereby suggesting a possible mechanism underlying both sporadic and familial forms of this neurodegenerative disease. 10818098 2000
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group LHGDN Synphilin-1A: an aggregation-prone isoform of synphilin-1 that causes neuronal death and is present in aggregates from alpha-synucleinopathy patients. 16595633 2006
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The accumulation of intraneuronal inclusions containing misfolded alpha-synuclein (aSyn) within the central nervous system (CNS) is a common feature found in several neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson's disease (PD). 30771169 2019
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Dopaminergic neuronal cell death caused by mutations and accumulation of α-synuclein in Lewy bodies and neurites was suggested as the main strategy for PD, but current studies have paid attention to the role of mevalonate pathway in incidence of neurodegenerative diseases including PD. 28419968 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Parkinson's disease (PD), a multiorgan neurodegenerative disorder associated with α-synuclein deposits throughout the nervous system and many organs, is clinically characterized by motor and nonmotor features, many of the latter antedating motor dysfunctions by 20 or more years. 28802920 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE In conclusion, (1) a frontal lobe syndrome-like personality change may be one of the characteristic clinical features of early-onset CWP-AD, (2) the deposition pattern of Abeta40 and Abeta42 in CWP-AD is more variable than that of presenilin-1-linked cases, (3) Abeta deposition can result in development of dementia without tau pathology, and (4) CWP-AD with LBs and several other neurodegenerative disorders with LBs share a common process involving alpha-synuclein and NAC deposition. 12883830 2003
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group LHGDN The mice expressing the A53T human alpha-Syn, but not wild-type or the A30P variants, develop adult-onset neurodegenerative disease with a progressive motoric dysfunction leading to death. 12084935 2002
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Co-pathology prevalence was similar between the minimal pathology group and most neurodegenerative diseases for each proteinopathy: tau was nearly universal (92-100%), amyloid-β common (20-57%); α-synuclein less common (4-16%); and TDP-43 the rarest (0-16%). 29878075 2018