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Lewy body dementia (DOID:12217)
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Synonyms: Dementia with Lewy bodies; Diffuse Lewy body disease; Lewy body disease; Senile dementia of the Lewy body type
Alt IDs: OMIM:127750, ICD10CM:G31.83, ICD9CM_2006:331.82, ICD9CM:331.82, MESH:D020961, NCI:C84826, UMLS_CUI:C0752347
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.

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Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB)), Gene Ontology (GO)
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09/17/2024
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