Both pathogenic missense mutations (A53T, A30P, E46K, G51D, and H50Q) (PARK1) and multiplication of the entire gene (duplications and triplications) (PARK4) cause familial types of PD/DLB (Polymeropoulos et al., 1997; Kruger et al., 1998; Chartier-Harlin et al., 2004; Zarranz et al., 2004; Appel-Cresswell et al., 2013; Kiely et al., 2013). Here, SNCA is linked to Parkinson disease.