First cancer. Now, Parkinson’s?
The idea that one disease is actually several, each driven by its own genetics and differing in everything from age of onset to response to drugs, made cancer the poster child for precision medicine. Now, a $4 million study announced on Monday aims to see whether a genetically informed precision-medicine approach might work for Parkinson’s, too.
The study is a partnership between the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and the genetic testing company 23andMe. One goal: to identify new drug candidates.
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