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The next step: The 23andMe Parkinson's Disease Initiative
Author: Desiree Martin
The Personal Genome Service company and Time Magazine's "2008 Invention of the Year" 23andMe launched a new community. In conjunction with the Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center and the Michael J. Fox Foundation, 23andMe starts a research program for Parkinson's disease patients.
Those organizations are inviting 10,000 Parkinson's patients to enroll in 23andMe's service, get genotyped, and join the company's Parkinson's community. The genome wide association studies from this pool of 10,000 will provide a huge step towards finding genetic and environmental modifiers to PD, its symptoms and progression, as well as the effectiveness of different treatments. The program has been made possible through a contribution from Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.
Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki founded their web-based DNA analysis technologies in early 2008 and presented 23andMe at DLD08.
They plan to announce similar initiatives around other diseases. "Our approch of combining genetic data with the web-based collection of condition-specific information has the potential to drive the study of many disorders," said co-founder Linda Avey.
Read the portrait of 23andMe here, further informations about the Parkinson's Disease Initiative please find here.
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