Black and African American Connections to Parkinson’s Disease Study: Addressing Missing Diversity in Parkinson’s Disease Genetics

Our current understanding of Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonism-related syndromes is disproportionately based on studying populations of European ancestry, leading to a significant gap of knowledge concerning clinical features, genetics, and pathophysiology underlying disease etiology in underrepresented populations, including Black and African American individuals.