Disease Risk Allele Score vda Association Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Neurodegenerative Disorders
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE Later, the discovery of two missense mutations (G88C and G209A), which resulted in Ala30Pro (A30P) and Ala53Thr (A53T) substitutions, of the alpha-synuclein gene in certain autosomal-dominant early onset familial Parkinson's disease (PD) has greatly promoted the understanding of the role of alpha-synuclein in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, such as PD, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and multiple system atrophy (MSA) [5,6,51,75]. 12719631 2003
Neurodegenerative Disorders
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE 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