Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin will be donating millions of dollars to an innovative genetics study on Parkinson's disease. On Thursday he will contribute millions of dollars money and his DNA for a study and research on Parkinson's disease to a company named 23andMe Inc., co-founded and run by his wife, Anne Wojcicki. Mountain View-based 23andMe is a personal genomics service that offers information on customers' health risks after it scans their DNA.
Sergey Brin has suffered from Parkinson's disease and also his mother has the same disease. 23andMe Inc now enlist 10,000 people for the Parkinson's study. It only $25 for analyze their DNA mean it's so cheap. It's $399 for normal check up.
When Brin went for testin in 23andMe last year, he found that he had also inherited a gene called LRRK2, which raises his risk of getting the disease by between 20% to 80%. After becoming a father Sergey Brin also test his son and his baby life is normal but it may possible that his baby get infected soon.
