Genetic mutation increases risk of Parkinson's disease from pesticides

... M.D., Ph.D., professor and director of Sanford-Burnham's Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research and senior author of the study. Until now, the link between pesticides and Parkinson's disease was based mainly on animal ...

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