The realities of personal genomics bite Google founder Sergey Brin

[ECO]

Sergey Brin (Google's uber-billionaire founder) has discovered via 23andme that he carries some very strongly predisposing alleles for Parkinsons.

The exact implications of this are not entirely clear. Early studies tend to have small samples with various selection biases. Nonetheless it is clear that I have a markedly higher chance of developing Parkinson's in my lifetime than the average person. In fact, it is somewhere between 20% to 80% depending on the study and how you measure.

He makes this annnouncement this on his blog, and there is a NY Times article about it.

Sergey carries G2019S of LRRK2 (leucine repeat-rich kinase 2).

[The Sherpa]

If he's Jewish, he's got risk. If he isn't....well, then the picture gets even more confusing....

-Steve

https://www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com