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: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease and alpha-synuclein. 9749575 1998
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Alpha-synuclein is the main component of Lewy bodies (LB), the neuropathological hallmark of PD. 10809401 2000
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Alpha-synuclein was implicated in Parkinson's disease when missense mutations in the alpha-synuclein gene were found in autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease and alpha-synuclein was shown to be a major constituent of protein aggregates in sporadic Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies. 14572463 2003
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Alpha-synuclein is a major protein constituent of Lewy bodies and mutations in alpha-synuclein cause familial autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease. 14996933 2004
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE SNCA gene dosage analysis was also performed for AdPD using quantitative duplex polymerase chain reaction of genomic DNA. 17222106 2007
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE SNCA missense mutations are a rare cause of autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease (PD). 29398121 2018
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A de novo alpha-synuclein A53T (p.Ala53 Th; c.209G > A) mutation has been identified in a Swedish family with autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease (PD). 19632874 2009
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A founder haplotype on chromosome 2p for autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease (PD) has been postulated for two families of Northern European descent, and a new mutation in the alpha-synuclein gene (Ala30Pro) has been found in a German PD family. 10738540 1999
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A mutation in exon 4 of the alpha-synuclein (NACP) gene has been reported to explain the chromosome 4 linkage to autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease. 9506559 1998
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Although SNCA duplication is an unusual cause of familial PD testing for it is worthwhile. 19833540 2010
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Although clinical symptoms with LRRK2 mutations are similar to those in sporadic PD, their pathologies are heterogeneous and include nigral degeneration with abnormal inclusions containing alpha-synuclein, tau, TAR DNA-binding protein 43, and ubiquitin, or pure nigral degeneration with no protein aggregation pathologies. 30333048 2018
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Controlling Lrrk2 Asyn phosphokinase activity may be an approach to disease modifying therapy for PD and other synucleinopathies. 19576176 2009
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE DNA samples from 50 patients with familial PD were screened via single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) for mutations in the alpha-synuclein gene. 11748744 2001
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE FINDINGS: Pteridines, α-synuclein, mtDNA, 5-hydroxyindolacetic acid, β-D-glucose, lamp2, interleukin-8, and vascular endothelial growth factor were suggested to differentiate LRRK2 PD from sPD patients; 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), 8-isoprostane (8-ISO), 2-hydroxybutyrate, mtDNA, lamp2, and neopterin may differentiate between LRRK2 CTL and LRRK2 PD subjects; and soluble oligomeric α-synuclein, 8-OHdG, and 8-ISO might differentiate LRRK2 CTL from CTL subjects. 31322581 2019
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Four of 264 families (1.5%) with typical ADPD carried duplications and 1 of 22 families (4.5%) with atypical AD parkinsonism carried a triplication of SNCA. 19139307 2009
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Here, we describe 2 novel families in which there is autosomal dominant PD associated with SNCA duplication, and we compare the clinical features of all known patients carrying 3 or 4 SNCA copies. 23744550 2013
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE However, the discovery that alpha-synuclein is a major component of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, the pathological hallmarks of PD, confirmed its role in PD pathogenesis. 11215516 2000
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In this Commentary, I describe the events that led from an NINDS-sponsored Workshop on Parkinson Disease Research in 1995, where I was asked to speak about the genetics of Parkinson disease, to the identification a mere two years later of a mutation in alpha-synuclein as the cause of autosomal dominant Parkinson disease in the Contursi kindred. 28282812 2017
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Loci underlying autosomal dominant forms of most neurodegenerative disease have been identified: prion mutations cause Gerstmann Straussler syndrome and hereditary Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, tau mutations cause autosomal dominant frontal temporal dementia and alpha-synuclein mutations cause autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease. 16042548 2005
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Loci underlying autosomal dominant forms of most neurodegenerative disease have been identified: prion mutations cause Gerstmann Straussler syndrome and hereditary Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease, tau mutations cause autosomal dominant frontal temporal dementia, and alpha-synuclein mutations cause autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease. 14976159 2004
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in alpha-synuclein have been identified in some rare families with autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease (PD). 12480176 2002
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the alpha-synuclein (alphaSYN ) gene are associated with rare cases of autosomal-dominant Parkinson's disease. 11359883 2001
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the genes coding for alpha-synuclein and ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase have been identified in families with autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease. 11193165 2000
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results confirm that the p. A53T SNCA mutation is relatively common in Greek patients with PD or PD plus dementia, particularly in cases with early onset and/or autosomal dominant family history. 29233723 2018
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Point mutations and genomic multiplications in the alpha-synuclein (alphaSYN) gene cause autosomal-dominant Parkinson's disease. 17932682 2008