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My DNA Finally Explained Me. Then It Kept Talking.
The PRKN result answered why Parkinson’s found me—and turned one man’s medical history into family information.
For thirty-five years, Parkinson’s had no trouble making itself known. It just refused to show identification.
It took movement, changed work, complicated fatherhood, altered plans and made itself the least charming permanent guest imaginable. Doctors could name the disease. Treatments could change what it did. I could describe its effects well enough to testify, write, speak and occasionally make a room laugh at something that had no business being funny. But the deeper biological question—why this disease found me so young—remained open.