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Brian Collins wrote: > > Hello Jeanne, welcome to the list. I am very intetested to hear that your > Mother and brother both had PD. It is VERY unusual. In fact, I would have > expected the neurologists to be beating a path to your door. The situation > is that although very very few people aquire PD by way of genetic > inheritance, when it does happen, it presents the possibility that searching > the genetic code may point to a specific area as being associated with PD, > and then they are off and running. When you go for your evaluation next week, > be sure to mention you family history. If they don't react to it I will be > very surprised. Are you aware of any PD in your more distant ancestors? > You may have heard recently the news item about a gene for PD having been > discovered? That turns out to be a little premature : we have had an appeal > for help from the research team to try to locate any more of that large > Italian family. Did anyone of the list keep that appeal? The may be > interested in Jeanne's case themselves. Little me again Brian, On the subject I may say that my grandmother (father side) was the only of several brothers that had PD.One of her sons and one of the sons (one of my cousins) were PWP.My father did not suffer it.However I am the youngtest of his sons (and I am not sure if I really am a PD,or have family tremors,or both.I (67 yrs) am one of his 15 sons and my third older sister(87 years) is a PWP too.My other brothers did not suffered of it though some died not quite old and some did not reached adult age. REgards +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + | [log in to unmask] | +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+