A characteristic feature in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) involves the accumulation of alpha-synuclein (αSyn) protein within the cytoplasm of brain cells (Maries et al., 2003; Waxman and Giasson, 2009) — an event that underlies the molecular basis of PD pathology (Bridi and Hirth, 2018; Zeng et al., 2018). Here, SNCA is linked to Parkinson disease.