Wanted: Ashkenazi Parkinson’s patients for clinical trial
Pictured above: Dr. Richard Rosenbaum. A study targeting a type of Parkinson’s disease more prevalent among those of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry seeks study participants in Phoenix. “The new drug study is to treat Parkinson’s disease in people with a mutant GBA gene, which is particularly common in Ashkenazim and is also prevalent in Gaucher patients,”…