The implications are that we'll be able to identify families that carry this gene, to be able to provide counseling to them and, ultimately, we'll hopefully be able to identify them very early if they develop prostate cancer.

We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more.

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

I think it would be not very efficient and heartbreaking, maybe, to identify a child [with the gene gap] and then not have a policy set in place to do the early intervention.

If we can find drugs that increase activity of the DJ-1 gene, we may be able to stop the relentless progression of Parkinson's disease even in patients who don't have mutations in the gene. Stopping a disease in its earliest stages would be a tremendous breakthrough.