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sukiespice13
Asked December 2018
Is Parkinson’s hereditary?
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SnoopyLove
Dec 2018
That's an interesting question. Just Googling it, it looks like a small percentage of cases are due to a genetic defect that apparently is hereditary, but in the majority of cases it is not hereditary.
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