Lewy body dementia

Summary
Synonym
  • Dementia with Lewy bodies
  • Diffuse Lewy body disease
  • Lewy body disease
  • Senile dementia of the Lewy body type
Definition
A dementia that is characterized by the development of abnormal proteinaceous (alpha-synuclein) cytoplasmic inclusions, called Lewy bodies, throughout the brain that results in progressive decline in mental abilities that has_material_basis_in accumulation of alpha-synuclein, SCNA, (protein). The causal mutation might be in SCNA or SCNB or some other gene(s) but the end result is always accumulation of SCNA in Lewy bodies.
Super Class
dementia
Disease Ontology
DOID:12217
Mondo Disease Ontology
MeSH
UMLS
NCI Thesaurus
GARD
MGI genotype (from TogoID)
WikiPathways (from TogoID)
Related Genes
Displaying all 7 entries
Gene ID Gene Symbol Description Source
2629 GBA1 glucosylceramidase beta 1
3480 IGF1R insulin like growth factor 1 receptor
4843 NOS2 nitric oxide synthase 2
5653 KLK6 kallikrein related peptidase 6
6620 SNCB synuclein beta
6622 SNCA synuclein alpha
6623 SNCG synuclein gamma
The Human Phenotype Ontology
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HPO ID HPO Term
HP:0000006 Autosomal dominant inheritance
HP:0002367 Visual hallucination
HP:0000746 Delusion
HP:0100315 Lewy bodies
HP:0000726 Dementia
HP:0007159 Fluctuations in consciousness
HP:0001300 Parkinsonism
Displaying 1 entry
Gene ID Gene Symbol Description
2629 GBA1 glucosylceramidase beta 1

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