α-Synuclein in speculative neuronal extracellular vesicles: A marker for Parkinson's disease risk?

ABSTRACT

This opinion piece describes major limitations of using α-synuclein in speculative neuronally enriched for diagnosing or predicting Parkinson's disease risk from prodromal conditions such as REM behaviour disorder. It concludes that such an approach is unreliable and recommends that future researchers divert away to more widely accepted approaches such as seed amplification assays.