Parkinson’s Gene Found in Africa With Funding From Sergey Brin

Results from what could be the largest-ever study of Parkinson's disease genetics in people of African ancestry found that someone with two copies of a newly discovered variant are at roughly 3.5 times more risk of developing the disease than those with no copies.

Researchers at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, the US National Institutes of Health and University College London probed the genes of 1,488 Parkinson’s patients from Nigeria and the US, and compared them to DNA from more than 196,000 people who didn’t have the disease.