Functional variants in the LRRK2 gene confer shared effects on risk for Crohn's disease and Parkinson's disease

KY Hui, H Fernandez-Hernandez, J Hu… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
Crohn's disease (CD), a form of inflammatory bowel disease, has a higher prevalence in
Ashkenazi Jewish than in non-Jewish European populations. To define the role of …

Is LRRK2 the missing link between inflammatory bowel disease and Parkinson's disease?

MK Herrick, MG Tansey - npj Parkinson's Disease, 2021 - nature.com
Links that implicate the gastrointestinal system in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis
and progression have become increasingly common. PD shares several similarities with …

Lrrk2 alleles modulate inflammation during microbial infection of mice in a sex-dependent manner

B Shutinoski, M Hakimi, IE Harmsen, M Lunn… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Variants in the leucine-rich repeat kinase-2 (LRRK2) gene are associated with Parkinson's
disease, leprosy, and Crohn's disease, three disorders with inflammation as an important …

Mutant LRRK2 exacerbates immune response and neurodegeneration in a chronic model of experimental colitis

D Cabezudo, G Tsafaras, E Van Acker… - Acta …, 2023 - Springer
The link between the gut and the brain in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis is currently
a subject of intense research. Indeed, gastrointestinal dysfunction is known as an early …

LRRK2 is involved in the IFN-γ response and host response to pathogens

A Gardet, Y Benita, C Li, BE Sands… - The Journal of …, 2010 - journals.aai.org
LRRK2 was previously identified as a defective gene in Parkinson's disease, and it is also
located in a risk region for Crohn's disease. In this study, we aim to determine whether …

LRRK2 and human disease: a complicated question or a question of complexes?

PA Lewis, C Manzoni - Science signaling, 2012 - science.org
Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is linked to various diseases, including Parkinson's
disease, cancer, and leprosy. Data from LRRK2 knockout mice has highlighted a possible …

An increase in LRRK2 suppresses autophagy and enhances Dectin-1–induced immunity in a mouse model of colitis

T Takagawa, A Kitani, I Fuss, B Levine… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
The LRRK2/MUC19 gene region constitutes a high-risk genetic locus for the occurrence of
both inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) and Parkinson's disease. We show that dendritic …

Parkinson's disease-linked LRRK2 is expressed in circulating and tissue immune cells and upregulated following recognition of microbial structures

M Hakimi, T Selvanantham, E Swinton… - Journal of neural …, 2011 - Springer
Sequence variants at or near the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) locus have been
associated with susceptibility to three human conditions: Parkinson's disease (PD), Crohn's …

Leucine rich repeat kinase 2 and innate immunity

D Ahmadi Rastegar, N Dzamko - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
For more than a decade, researchers have sought to uncover the biological function of the
enigmatic leucine rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) enzyme, a large multi-domain protein with …

Inflammatory bowel disease and Parkinson's disease: common pathophysiological links

HS Lee, E Lobbestael, S Vermeire, J Sabino, I Cleynen - Gut, 2021 - gut.bmj.com
Inflammatory bowel disease and Parkinson's disease are chronic progressive disorders that
mainly affect different organs: the gut and brain, respectively. Accumulating evidence has …