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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.