Following the Pathway Analysis in Parkinson’s Disease
Pathway analyses of genomic data make intuitive sense to me for conditions like Parkinson’s disease. Only a handful of single genes have been consistently associated with Parkinson’s, but the genomic picture is certainly larger, and we are faced with the complex possibility that numerous rarer variations play a role. The underlying assumption of pathway analyses is that diverse genomic variations may be part of common pathways that, when dysfunctional, may lead to disease.