Atypical parkinsonism of progressive supranuclear palsy–parkinsonism (PSP-P) phenotype with rare variants in FBXO7 and VPS35 genes associated with Lewy body pathology
A total of 23 gene loci have been identified in association with Parkinson’s disease (PD), but the neuropathological background has been described in only a few of them. We had recently an opportunity to study the pathological finding in case of atypical parkinsonism associated with rare sequence variants in the FBXO7 and VPS35 genes; the neuropathology associated with variants in these genes has not yet been described [9]. All steps of the study were approved by the local ethics committee of the University Hospital Olomouc.
This case was a member of a family with positive history of parkinsonism; the family originated from an area of the Czech Republic with a proven increased prevalence of parkinsonism [2, 8]. As described in our previous paper, the patient was an 83-year-old man who had atypical parkinsonism with a phenotype of progressive supranuclear palsy—parkinsonism (PSP-P) with onset at the age of 66 [1] (see Video). The disease manifested initially with the signs typical for...
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Funding
This study was funded by grant from the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, grant Nr. 15-32715A, by grant from the Palacky University Medical School Internal Grant Agency—IGA LF 2018-009, and by grant from the Ministry of Health, Czech Republic—conceptual development of research organization—MH CZ – DRO (FNOL, 00098892) 2018 and the OP VVV (Czech Republic) project “Molecular, cellular and clinical approach to the healthy aging – ENOCH”, reg. Nr. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000868.
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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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