23andMe already testing for rare Parkinson’s mutations?

Genetic Future, Posted on: March 23, 2009 9:15 AM, by Daniel MacArthur

In other words, the company already has probes on its custom chip targeting these variants, but it isn’t yet reporting results back to customers.  Why isn’t it reporting back? If you’d asked me a couple of months ago, I’d say the motivation was probably to avoid the regulatory hassles associated with testing overtly clinical markers…

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How yeast is helping us to understand Parkinson’s Disease

EurekAlert!, Public release date: 27-Feb-2009

Teams of scientists from Australia and the United States have used yeast and mammalian cells to discover a connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson’s disease.  Yeasts are single cell organisms, used widely in biological research because their structure resembles that of cells found in animals and humans. Yeasts share many genes, or their functional equivalents, with humans and offer the ability to screen or test thousands of genes and analysing their effects.

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Study links genetic, environmental causes of Parkinson’s

Nicole Giese, Whitehead Institute
February 1, 2009

Scientists at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have demonstrated one of the first links between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson’s disease.

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