Yuanzhe Li, Aya Ikeda, Hiroyo Yoshino, Genko Oyama, Mitsuhiro Kitani, Kensuke Daida, Arisa Hayashida, Kotaro Ogaki, Kousuke Yoshida, Takashi Kimura, Yoshiaki Nakayama, Hidefumi Ito, Naoto Sugeno, Masashi Aoki, Hiroaki Miyajima, Katsuo Kimura, Naohisa Ueda, Masao Watanabe, Takao Urabe, Masashi Takanashi, Manabu Funayama, Kenya Nishioka, Nobutaka Hattori
Variants of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) are the most common genetic cause of familial Parkinson's disease (PD). We aimed to investigate the genetic and clinical features of patients with PD and LRRK2 variants in Japan by screening for LRRK2 variants in three exons (31, 41, and 48), which include the following pathogenic mutations: p.R1441C, p.R1441G, p.R1441H, p.G2019S, and p.I2020T. Herein, we obtained data containing LRRK2 variants derived from 1402 patients with PD (653 with sporadic PD and 749 with familial PD)...
May 13, 2020: Journal of Human Genetics