Nita Andres wrote:

> John Lees wrote:
> >
> > To All,
> >         Am I mistaking or is the E Mail addressed "Gene" not good news.
> >         I thought the letter said a researcher in Japan believes he may
> > have found a gene that is related to PD, and yet when I get home not
> > message or a ???? about it.  Am I the only that read it? Is it a joke? Does
> > this type of information happen every so often and then nothing? What
> > gives?!
> > PUSH PUSH PUSH
> >  John
> > West Jordan, Ut
>
> Yes, it is good news and Idid miss it. do you know who the scientists
> were so it can be found in a medicaal library? Or, for that matter,
> found anyplace.
>
> Nita Andres
> [log in to unmask]

  Nita, I think this is the original E-Mail in this thread, it may help you make
sense of the responses, or lack of.

Sackvill wrote:

> One of my sons sent me this a little while ago - it's from the San Jose
> Mercury.  Liz S~~
>
>                           Posted at 12:45 p.m. PDT Wednesday, April 8,
> 1998
>
>                           Japanese doctors find gene tied to
>                           Parkinson's
>
>                           LONDON (Reuters) - Japanese scientists
> identified a gene Wednesday which causes a
>                           rare inherited form of Parkinson's disease
> that strikes the young.
>
>                           Tohru Kitada and researchers at Keio
> University School of Medicine in Tokyo tracked
>                           down the gene linked to autosomal recessive
> juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP), a brain
>                           disorder that begins in adolescence and
> incapacitates many sufferers by middle age.
>
>                           ``Mutations in the newly identified gene
> appear to be responsible for the pathogenesis
>                           (development) of AR-JP, and we have therefore
> named the protein product parkin,''
>                           Kitada said in a report in the scientific
> journal Nature.
>
>                           The mutation may also play a part in
> Parkinson's disease, a much more common
>                           degenerative brain disease which strikes later
> in life and afflicts up to half a million
>                           people in the United States alone.
>
>                           ``Although AR-JP is rare, Kitada et al may
> have identified a previously unrecognized
>                           component of what will certainly be a complex
> pathogenetic pathway (chain reaction of
>                           genes) leading to Parkinson's disease,''
> Robert Nussbaum said in an accompanying
>                           commentary in Nature.
>
>                           Both Parkinson's disease and AR-JP are
> characterized by movement problems, called
>                           parkinsonism, such as tremors, rigidity and
> slowness.
>
>                           Kitada and his team discovered the gene
> mutation in several unrelated AR-JP patients
>                           they studied.


Sackvill wrote:

> One of my sons sent me this a little while ago - it's from the San Jose
> Mercury.  Liz S~~
>
>                           Posted at 12:45 p.m. PDT Wednesday, April 8,
> 1998
>
>                           Japanese doctors find gene tied to
>                           Parkinson's
>
>                           LONDON (Reuters) - Japanese scientists
> identified a gene Wednesday which causes a
>                           rare inherited form of Parkinson's disease
> that strikes the young.
>
>                           Tohru Kitada and researchers at Keio
> University School of Medicine in Tokyo tracked
>                           down the gene linked to autosomal recessive
> juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP), a brain
>                           disorder that begins in adolescence and
> incapacitates many sufferers by middle age.
>
>                           ``Mutations in the newly identified gene
> appear to be responsible for the pathogenesis
>                           (development) of AR-JP, and we have therefore
> named the protein product parkin,''
>                           Kitada said in a report in the scientific
> journal Nature.
>
>                           The mutation may also play a part in
> Parkinson's disease, a much more common
>                           degenerative brain disease which strikes later
> in life and afflicts up to half a million
>                           people in the United States alone.
>
>                           ``Although AR-JP is rare, Kitada et al may
> have identified a previously unrecognized
>                           component of what will certainly be a complex
> pathogenetic pathway (chain reaction of
>                           genes) leading to Parkinson's disease,''
> Robert Nussbaum said in an accompanying
>                           commentary in Nature.
>
>                           Both Parkinson's disease and AR-JP are
> characterized by movement problems, called
>                           parkinsonism, such as tremors, rigidity and
> slowness.
>
>                           Kitada and his team discovered the gene
> mutation in several unrelated AR-JP patients
>                           they studied.