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SUBMITTER: Orme T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6097049 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Orme Tatiana T Guerreiro Rita R Bras Jose J
Current neurology and neuroscience reports 20180810 10
<h4>Purpose of review</h4>Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a neurodegenerative disease that can be clinically and pathologically similar to Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Current understanding of DLB genetics is insufficient and has been limited by sample size and difficulty in diagnosis. The first genome-wide association study (GWAS) in DLB was performed in 2017; a time at which the post-GWAS era has been reached in many diseases.<h4>Recent findings</h4>DLB shares risk ...[more]