| Literature DB >> 18661559 |
Terhi Peuralinna1, Minna Oinas, Tuomo Polvikoski, Anders Paetau, Raimo Sulkava, Leena Niinistö, Hannu Kalimo, Dena Hernandez, John Hardy, Andrew Singleton, Pentti J Tienari, Liisa Myllykangas.
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We analyzed whether genetic variation of alpha-synuclein modulates the extent of neuropathological changes in a population-based autopsied sample of 272 elderly Finns. None of the 11 markers was associated with the extent of neocortical beta-amyloid pathology. The intron 4 marker rs2572324 was associated with the extent of neurofibrillary pathology (p = 0.0006, permuted p = 0.004; Braak stages IV-VI vs 0-II). The same variant also showed a trend for association with neocortical Lewy-related pathology. These results suggest for the first time that variation of alpha-synuclein modulates neurofibrillary tau pathology and support the recent observations of an interaction of alpha-synuclein and tau in neurodegeneration.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18661559 PMCID: PMC8957216 DOI: 10.1002/ana.21446
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann Neurol ISSN: 0364-5134 Impact factor: 10.422