Online ISSN: 3007-0244,
Print ISSN:  2410-4280
THE ROLE OF PARK GENES FAMILY IN PARKINSON DISEASE
Author(s): Akanova A.A.
Parkinson Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the basal ganglia. Parkinson disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, after Alzheimer disease (rev. in Chai and Lim, 2013). The analysis of prevalence studies showed that there were 5 mln PD patients in 2005, and there is expected increase to 9.3 mln by 2030 (Dorsay et al., 2005). The main clinical indicators of PD are bradykinesia, postural instability, muscle rigidity and resting tremor, good L-dope response and asymmetrical clinical manifestation. There are two types of the pathology such as sporadic and familial forms of PD. 95% of all cases rare sporadic, which means there are no causes that promote the disease development. This review article aims to focus on PARK family of genes that are associated with Parkinson Disease development. It describes possible underlying mechanisms and clinical manifestations of the genetically predetermined Parkinson Disease form. To the present, there are huge amount of genes-candidates for PD but this review focuses on genes that showed significant association on Genome Wide Association Studies of PD genes as well as to describe briefly the clinical manifestations of different familial PD forms
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Akanova A.A. The role of PARK genes family in Parkinson disease. Nauka i Zdravoohranenie [Science & Healthcare]. 2015, 3, pp. 29-36.


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