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Low-cost Parkinson's disease diagnostic test a world first

Scientists at Melbourne's Howard Florey Institute have developed a cost-effective diagnostic test for Parkinson's disease (PD), which will also assist researchers tounderstand the genetic basis of PD and to undertake large-scale studies to identify the genes that cause this debilitating condition.

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