Nov 19, 2019
How and why Parkinson’s disease (PD) starts and progresses is still not exactly known, but active research points to genetics and environment, among other factors. The environment is both external and internal – external in terms of what people encounter outside their bodies and internal in terms of what is inside...
Nov 5, 2019
Many diseases have a genetic component. In most instances, these gene variants are risk factors for the disease, that is, they raise the risk that someone might develop the disease. It is estimated that 10% to 15% of people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have a genetic form of the disease, and several genes have been...