Saskatchewan Mennonite Families Helps Scientists Locate Parkinson’s Disease Gene

An international team of scientists – including those from the University of Saskatchewan-Saskatoon Health Region and University of British Columbia – with the help of Saskatchewan Mennonite families has identified an abnormal gene that leads to Parkinson’s disease.

“This discovery paves the way for further research to determine the nature of brain abnormalities which this gene defect produces,” says Ali Rajput, MD, a world-renowned expert in Parkinson’s disease who has been studying the disease for 45 years and working with the main family in the study since 1983. For more information, click here to read the full release.