Parkinson's genetics: an embarrassment of riches.
Parkinson's genetics: an embarrassment of riches.
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帕金森氏症遗传学:财富的尴尬。
DOI:
10.1002/ana.10091
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
11.2
通讯作者:
Farrer,Matt
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作者:
Gwinn-Hardy,Katrina;Farrer,Matt
After intensive epidemiological study, Parkinson’s disease (PD) had been considered the archetypal “nongenetic disorder. Despite this background, two genes are clearly associated with disease: α-synuclein1 (PARK1) and parkin2 (PARK2). There is increasing evidence implicating a third, ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase3, 4 (PARK5), and there are five genetic linkages (PARK3, 4, 6, 7, and 8) with others in the pipeline. 5–9 Recent heritability studies suggest that genetics plays a role in “typical” Parkinson’s disease in the population, 10 whereas genes and genetic variability implicated by positional cloning studies are demonstrated to be risk factors for the sporadic condition. 1, 11, 12 Valente and colleagues13 (Annals of Neurology, this issue) now provide additional support for PARK6 on chromosome 1p35–p36 (D1S483-9cM-D1S2674), one of three loci (PARK6, 7, and 8) for parkinsonism that was recently reported on the short arm of chromosome 1. This finding further highlights the importance of genetics in parkinsonism; the authors demonstrate that the PARK6 locus contributes to recessively inherited PD in a relatively large number of cases in Europe (8 of 28 families examined, all negative for mutations in the parkin gene, PARK2). The initial report by Valente and colleagues7 of PARK6 (MIM 605909) was closely followed by the assignment of PARK7 by van Duijn and colleagues. 8 PARK6 (D1S483-9cM-D1S2674), which is more centromeric, was identified in a consanguineous family from Italy (the Marsala kindred); PARK7 (D1S243-16cM-D1S244), which is closer to the “p-arm” telomere, was found through genomewide linkage analysis in a consanguineous family from the southwest Netherlands. PARK6 and PARK7 loci are genetically and clinically distinct. Patients from the Masala kindred (PARK6) presented asymmetrically at 32 to 48 years of age, with rest tremor predominant, mild to moderate parkinsonism. The disease has a slow progression, with good response to L-Dopa, albeit with L-Dopa-induced dyskinesias of variable severity. In none of 16 patients, now documented, are dystonia or sleep benefit noted, distinguishing these patients from those with parkin-proven (PARK2) disease. In PARK7-linked individuals, parkinsonism presented at 38 to 50 years at age; again, symptoms were primarily asymmetric with slow progression and good response to L-Dopa therapy. Notably, resting tremor was absent in 3 of 4 patients, 3 had behavioral/psychic disturbances early in the disease course, and 2 patients suffered focal dystonia (blepharospasm). In neither PARK6 nor PARK7 has pathology been documented, and the PARK7 assignment remains to be confirmed by identification of other linked families. PARK7 overlaps with DYT13, a dominant locus for primary torsion dystonia. 13 Although the mode of inheritance and presentations of these movement disorders is different, it is not inconceivable that PARK7 and DYT13 are allelic disorders. The discovery of several recessive loci, PARK2, 6, and 7, that contribute to disease was preempted, in part, by a recent Icelandic study suggesting that prevalent genetic variability is a major contributor to Parkinson’s disease on the island9; the Icelandic locus is about to be reported. 9 The frequency of parkin mutations (PARK2) in Europe has been estimated at 49% in families with early-onset parkinsonism compatible with recessive inheritance, and in 18% of patients with sporadic parkinsonism with onset 45 years. 15 PARK6 mutations may account for a similar number of patients. In total these findings support the notion that Parkinson’s disease in general, may be caused by a mixture of genetic and stochastic …