The distinction between graduate school and professional school is somewhat like the distinction between basic science and applied science; the differences lie in the focus. In graduate school, students focus primarily on mastering a particular field of study.
Protein deglycase DJ-1, also known as Parkinson disease protein 7, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the PARK7 gene.ARK7 belongs to the peptidase C56 family of proteins. The protein structures of human protein DJ-1, Escherichia coli chaperone Hsp31 and an Archaea protease are evolutionarily conserved.
Among 118 familial patients and 7 sporadic patients with early-onset Parkinson disease (range of age at onset, 12 to 78 years), Ibanez et al. (2003) did not identify any mutations in the DJ1 gene, suggesting that PARK7 is not a common locus for early-onset autosomal recessive Parkinson disease.The patients came from Europe, South America, Lebanon, Asia, Turkey, and North Africa.EXT. A number sign (#) is used with this entry because this form of autosomal recessive early-onset Parkinson disease is caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the DJ1 gene (602533) on chromosome 1p36.