SLC17A6 and Parkinson disease: Together, these data point to the possibility that dVGLUT/VGLUT2 is one of the main drivers behind DA neuron resilience both in aging (Buck et al. 2021a) and in PD (Steinkellner et al. 2018, 2022; Shen et al. 2018) and could contribute to the observed regional and sex differences in DA neurodegeneration.