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The following exerpts are from a news release about to be released by the PDF which was supplied to me in rough draft form and the final notice will be edited.. What I thought was most interesting is contained in the final Paragraph. ( I will have a scaner shortly which will be a lot easier than typing. Response of the Parkinson,s Disease Foundation to the NIH Report on Mapping a Gene for Parkinson,s Disease In an article just published in the magazine Science scientists from the NIH report that they have found a gene......on the long arm of chromosone #4, may contain 200 or more genes........ This finding is important both because it shows that a single gene mutation can cause Parkinson"s in at leased one family and because it permits scientists to concentrate more narrowly their search for a candidate gene causing PD.... Important as this report may be, scientists caution against reading too much into it..... Of thousands of Parkinson patients surveyed in Columbia Presbyterian's own movement disorders program, only 10 percent have been able to identify any close family member who has the disease..... The report does remind us of some specific and important things Parkinson's patients can do for their families and children. One is to arrange for samples of blood to be banked for future use by other members of the family as and when genetic tests and iterventions become available. Another is to consider donating brain tissue== a crucial ingridient in Parkinson's research---upon death. Persons interested in futher information on these issues are invited to contact us at the Foundation directly. Robin Elliot 1-800-457-6676 or 1-212-923-4700 PS . Editing and misspellings are my fault because im getting tired and i am a poor typist Dale Severance Brooklyn, New York