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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Chung, Seok Jonga; b | Lee, Phil Hyua | Sohn, Young H.a | Kim, Yun Joonga; b; *
Affiliations: [a] Department of Neurology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea | [b] Department of Neurology, Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Yongin, South Korea
Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Yun Joong Kim, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, Yongin Severance Hospital, 363 Dongbaekjukjeon-daero, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 16995, South Korea. Tel.: 82 31 5189 8140; Fax: +82 31 5189 8565; E-mail: yunjkim@yuhs.ac.
Abstract: Background:The concept of motor reserve explains the individual differences in motor deficits despite similar degrees of nigrostriatal dopamine depletion in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Objective:To investigate glucocerebrosidase (GBA) variants as potential determinants of motor reserve for exploratory purposes. Methods:A total of 408 patients with drug-naïve PD were enrolled from the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative cohort database. All patients underwent SPECT dopamine transporter (DAT) scans and had results for Sanger sequencing of GBA. Parkinsonian motor deficits were assessed using the Movement Disorders Society Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale Part III (MDS-UPDRS-III). We compared MDS-UPDRS-III scores while adjusting for DAT availability in the putamen (i.e., motor reserve) between the PD groups according to the presence of GBA mutations. Results:Fifty-four (13.2%) patients carried GBA mutations. PD patients with GBA mutations were younger than those without mutations. There were no significant differences in sex, disease duration, years of education, and striatal DAT availability between the PD groups. PD patients with GBA mutations had higher MDS-UPDRS-III scores for the less affected side than those without mutations, despite similar levels of DAT availability in the contralateral putamen. The MDS-UPDRS-III sub-scores of the more affected side did not differ between the two PD groups. Conclusion:The results of this study demonstrated the detrimental effect of GBA variants on individual capacity to cope with PD-related pathologies, with different impacts depending on the motor laterality.
Keywords: β-Glucocerebrosidase (GBA), laterality, motor reserve, Parkinson’s disease, Parkinson’s progression markers initiative (PPMI)
DOI: 10.3233/JPD-212758
Journal: Journal of Parkinson's Disease, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 1715-1724, 2021
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