Based on the initiative of Dr Prashanth LK, specialist in movement disorders, Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders clinic, Bengaluru, a first of its kind – India wide registry of YOPD (disease starting at age less than 50) was started by PRAI and resulted in insights into clinical and genetic aspects of Indian patients.
Parkinson’s disease with onset less than 20 years, 20-40 years and 40-50 years has different clinical features. The role of genetic factors seems to be higher in these patients compared to older age and this collaborative project has identified unique genetic fingerprints in Indian patients.”
Dr Vedam Ramprasad, CEO, MedGenome said, with increased focus on personalised medicine, using risk screening tools such as Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) will enable to predict an individual’s genetic liability to rare and inherited diseases much in advance before the symptoms start appearing.
