Abstract:Over the past decade, genetic causes of parkinsonism have been elucidated, but they account in most populations, for less than 10% of the cases. Since the discovery of the first gene responsible for Parkinson disease (PD),
SCNA
encoding α‐synuclein, linkage mapping and positional cloning have identified autosomal dominantly or recessively inherited PD‐causing mutations in the genes encoding
parkin
,
PINK1
,
DJ‐1
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