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Autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease caused by SNCA duplications
Konno T, Ross OA, Puschmann A, Dickson DW, Wszolek ZK.. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 2015-09-03
Topic: Disease mechanisms in lab and animal studies
The discovery in 1997 that mutations in the SNCA gene cause Parkinson's disease (PD) greatly advanced our understanding of this illness. There are pathogenic missense mutations and multiplication mutations in SNCA. Thus, not only a mutant protein, but also an increased dose of wild-type protein can produce autosomal dominant parkinsonism. We review the literature on SNCA duplications and focus on pathologically-confirmed cases. We also report a newly-identified American family with SNCA duplication whose proband was autopsied. We found that over half of the reported cases with SNCA duplication had early-onset parkinsonism and non-motor features, such as dysautonomia, rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD), hallucinations (usually visual) and cognitive deficits leading to dementia. Only a few cases have presented with typical features of PD. Our case presented with depression and RBD that preceded parkinsonism, and dysautonomia that led to an initial diagnosis of multiple system atrophy. Dementia and visual hallucinations followed. Our patient and the other reported cases with SNCA duplications had widespread cortical Lewy pathology. Neuronal loss in the hippocampal cornu ammonis 2/3 regions were seen in about half of the autopsied SNCA duplication cases. Similar pathology was also observed in SNCA missense mutation and triplication carriers.
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Konno, T., Ross, O. A., Puschmann, A., Dickson, D. W., & Wszolek, Z. K. (2016). Autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease caused by SNCA duplications. Parkinsonism & related disorders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.09.007
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Konno T, Ross OA, Puschmann A, Dickson DW, Wszolek ZK. Autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease caused by SNCA duplications. Parkinsonism & related disorders. 2016. doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.09.007. PMID: 26350119.
BibTeX
@article{konno2016-26350119,
author = {Konno, T. and Ross, O. A. and Puschmann, A. and Dickson, D. W. and Wszolek, Z. K.},
title = {{Autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease caused by SNCA duplications}},
journal = {Parkinsonism \& related disorders},
year = {2016},
doi = {10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.09.007},
pmid = {26350119},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.09.007}
}
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- We found that over half of the reported cases with SNCA duplication had early-onset parkinsonism and non-motor features, such as dysautonomia, rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD), hallucinations (usually visual) and cognitive deficits leading to dementia.
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How this study scored 36/100
Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scored zero for study design, sample size, effect reported, studied in people and randomized / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on journal's citation record, times cited, citations per year, impact for its field and year, cited by studies here, still being cited, senior author's track record, institution's track record and multicenter collaboration, so those were left out: it earned 21 of the 58 points we could judge it on, which is 36 out of 100.
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| Journal tier | 7 / 10 | Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (Parkinsonism & related disorders) |
| Journal's citation record | — / 4 | No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | 1 / 5 | 2016 — within 20 year(s) of the newest study here |
| Sample size | 0 / 4 | Participant count not stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
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| Randomized / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomization or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
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| Institution's track record | — / 3 | No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score |
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| Indexed in PubMed | 2 / 2 | Indexed in PubMed (PMID 26350119) |
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| Points | 21 / 58 | Scored on 11 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 21 of the 58 points we could judge it on is 36 out of 100. |
| Total | 36 / 100 | — |
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