SNCA and viral infectious disease: In exploring a role for each of the encoded proteins in host response against brain-directed viral infections, we previously demonstrated that two Lrrk2 knock-in variants as well as Snca expression altered survival rates from viral encephalitis following intranasal inoculation of newborn mice with a double-stranded RNA virus: respiratory-enteric-orphan virus, serotype-3 strain Dearing (reovirus T3D).