Science as Search: Sergey Brin to Fund Parkinson’s Study

March 12, 2009

On Thursday, 23andMe will announce a project with the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center to enroll up to 10,000 people with Parkinson’s Disease, get them genotyped using the 23andMe platform, and issue them a survey to fill in the phenotypic information. That physical “end result” correlation to their genotypic information should make for a rich and fruitful database, ripe for interrogation. With members’ permission, it will be searched and probed for possible correlations and implications. (Wired)