GALC and Parkinson disease: The GALC gene has now recently been identified as a risk loci for PD [18], coinciding with our results that found 10% (2/20) of PD patients tested to be a carrier for a severe GALC mutation (i.e. mutations p.Phe596Ser and pTrp132*) compared to 0% (0/10) of Alzheimer’s patients and 6.67% (2/30) of healthy controls.