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okay good afternoon I know I'm standing between you and the end of the conference I hope you've been enjoying yourself I was asked to talk about the genetic mutations that contribute to Parkinson's disease so most Parkinson's disease is sporadic we don't know why it occurs and why people aren't fortunate enough to get it but 15 around 15 percent of Parkinson's disease is due to mutations in a variety of different genes some of these are mutations we call autosomal recessive you have to have mutations in to both of your genes so we and have two sets of mutations and that's just extraordinarily bad luck the others are autosomal dominant and these you just need to have one mutation in a gene in order to develop the disease so over time when we first started with Parkinson's disease and I was in school we were told that it was not a genetic disease there was there were no families that had PD and what we were using to study PD was I'm not gonna get though there we go we were using a compou