Archive for the tag 'Parkinson’s'

Dec 18 2009

New Study Suggests LRRK2 G2019S Mutation Carriers are More Likely to Have Postural Instability and Gait Difficulty Type of Parkinson’s Disease

Published by ErinC under news

More than a million Americans have Parkinson’s disease, and another 50,000 are diagnosed each year. There is active research to try to understand this devastating condition, but scientists still don’t really know what causes it.  There are no clear environmental triggers for the disease, and genetics doesn’t seem to play a large role either – [...]

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Oct 30 2009

SNPwatch: The Bad Driving Gene?

Published by ErinC under SNPwatch

New research suggests that your skills behind the wheel may be affected by your genes.
To better understand the effects of a variant in the BDNF gene on motor skills learning, Steven Cramer and colleagues at UC Irvine tested 29 subjects in a driving simulator. Their results, published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, might make [...]

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Apr 13 2009

On Our Way to 10,000: 23andMe Welcomes First Members of Parkinson’s Disease Community

Published by MattC under news

We’ve set out to build the world’s largest online PD genetics community, and we’re thrilled to report that more than 2,000 people have enrolled since the initiative was launched last month. Owing to tremendous support from The Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center and The Michael J. Fox Foundation, their networks of patients have responded overwhelmingly. Assembling [...]

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Mar 11 2009

A New Approach to Research: The 23andMe Parkinson’s Disease Initiative

Published by LindaA under news, our founders

By 23andMe Co-Founders Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki
We started 23andMe with a simple, yet expansive, vision: to take DNA into the mainstream.  In order to demystify genetics, we thought the best approach was to give individuals access to their genomes and help them gain personalized insight into their own unique code.  This was our premise [...]

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