Life can change dramatically when someone learns they are genetically predisposed to a disease, such as a condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, where a mutated gene can lead to elevated cholesterol and increased risk for a premature heart attack. But these kinds of disease predictions are complicated: not everyone carrying such high-risk single-gene variants develops the …
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BY ROBERT PREIDT, HealthDay Reporter It may be possible to protect Parkinson’s patients’ brains from further damage by turning off a “master regulator” gene, researchers report. “One of the biggest challenges in treating Parkinson’s, other than the lack of therapies that impede disease progression, is that the disease has already laid waste to significant portions of …