HOUSTONâJustin Friendâs parents have doctoral degrees and have worked as university lecturers and researchers. So Mr. Friend might have been expected to head for a university after graduating from high school in Bryan, Texas, five years ago. Instead, he attended Texas State Technical College in Waco, and received a two-year degree in welding.
A flurry of emergent research has linked mitochondrial dysfunction to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. Mitochondrial dysfunction results in impaired ATP generation, loss of cellular repair mechanisms, and cellular inefficiency.
Report Abuse. Parkinson's Disease is thought to have both environmental and genetic factors (not necessarily inheritable). There are 13 genetic mutations of those: PARK 1, 3 and 8 are autosomal dominant PARK 12 located on X chromosome PARK 2 autosomal recessive.Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's...arkinson's Disease is thought to have both environmental and genetic factors (not necessarily inheritable). There are 13 genetic mutations of those: PARK 1, 3 and 8 are autosomal dominant PARK 12 located on X chromosome PARK 2 autosomal recessive.