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Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Risk Factors for Parkinson's disease Under Study

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Dr. Kapil Sethi, director of the Medical College of Georgia Movement Disorders program, and researchers at 17 other sites across the country will recruit 15,000 close relatives of Parkinson's patients as part of the Parkinson's Associated Risk Syndrome Study. The study aims to determine the risk that relatives have of developing the disease themselves.

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