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In this issue of Neuron, Lin et al. report that LRRK2 modulates age-related neurodegeneration caused by overexpression of alpha-synuclein in the forebrain of transgenic mice. Overexpression of LRRK2 accelerates the progression of alpha-synuclein-mediated neuropathological changes, whereas deletion of LRRK2 alleviates these alterations. The results reveal an interesting interaction between alpha-synuclein and LRRK2, two gene products linked to dominantly inherited Parkinson's disease. 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 20064381 PMCID: PMC2826885 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.12.017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neuron ISSN: 0896-6273 Impact factor: 17.173