"There are many trials going on now," "We're actually looking at new drugs both to improve symptoms, but also to modify the disease, essentially to slow the progression.

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If animals get a similar disease then you can learn about that disease progression in much more detail in the animal.

如果动物也能罹患相似的疾病,那么我们可以通过动物,更详尽的研究病程发展

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Or what - and often it's not going to be just one gene, it's going to be combinations of genes, and how do you predict the fate of the individual based on all of the genes that you know to be involved in progression of a certain disease.

有时候甚至都不仅仅是一个基因的问题,引发疾病的是一些不同基因的组合,并且怎样基于,导致某种特定疾病的所有基因,来预测一个人未来是否会患这种疾病呢

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