Genetic modifiers of risk and age at onset in GBA associated Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.

ABSTRACT: Parkinson's disease is a genetically complex disorder. Multiple genes have been shown to contribute to the risk of Parkinson's disease, and currently 90 independent risk variants have been identified by genome-wide association studies. Thus far, a number of genes (including SNCA, LRRK2, and GBA) have been shown to contain variability across a spectrum of frequency and effect, from rare, highly penetrant variants to common risk alleles with small effect sizes. Variants in GBA, encoding the enzyme glucocerebrosidase, are associated with Lewy body diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia. These variants, which reduce or abolish enzymatic activity, confer a spectrum of disease risk, from 1.4- to >10-fold. An outstanding question in the field is what other genetic factors tha

SUBMITTER: Blauwendraat C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6935749 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature