SNCA, synuclein alpha, 6622

N. diseases: 449; N. variants: 66
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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 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 The purpose of this study is to determine the frequency of LRRK2 and SNCA mutations in autosomal dominant PD in Turkey. 29248340 2018
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 The lack of significant differences in the putaminal binding ratios may reflect a floor effect or a true preferential targeting of the caudate terminals in p.A53T SNCA-associated PD. 30288781 2018
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 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 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 The identification of the p.A53T mutation in the SNCA gene encoding alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn), as causative of autosomal dominant Parkinson disease (PD) represented a fundamental milestone, which paved the way to the extremely prolific field of PD genetics. 26341711 2016
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The association between SNCA polymorphisms and PD could be explained through an increased expression of these alternative transcripts. 24418406 2014
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 STN-DBS is safe and effective in patients with SNCA duplication showing a clinical pattern similar to idiopathic PD. 21761143 2012
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The second known autosomal-dominant PD gene (SNCA) encodes alpha-synuclein, which is deposited in Lewy bodies, the neuropathological hallmark of PD. 20074637 2010
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 While mutation of alpha-synuclein is a cause of autosomal-dominant Parkinson's disease (PD), it is still elusive as to how alpha-synuclein is involved in the pathogenesis of PD. 19470380 2009
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 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 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 Point mutations and genomic multiplications in the alpha-synuclein (alphaSYN) gene cause autosomal-dominant Parkinson's disease. 17932682 2008
CUI: C3489791
Disease: Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
Parkinson Disease, Familial, Type 1
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Variation in SNCA expression may be critical in common, genetically complex PD but the underlying regulatory mechanism is unknown. 18669654 2008
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 Biomarker disease BEFREE We hypothesize that the neuroinflammation stimulated by release of an excess of normal alpha-synuclein or by release of its mutated forms can be involved in the pathobiology of PD. 17012252 2006
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 Recently, a triplication of the alpha-synuclein locus was found associated with autosomal dominant Parkinson disease in a large family. 15642855 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 Biomarker disease BEFREE We have recently described a whole-gene triplication of alpha-synuclein causing Lewy body parkinsonism in a large, well characterized family called the 'Iowa kindred'. 14736756 2004