A 31-Year-Old Male Has Been Newly Diagnosed with Early-Onset Parkinson

Multiple Choice

A 31-year-old male has been newly diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson disease. As the nurse is educating the patient and family, they ask how this happened so early in his life. The nurse will base the response on which of the following statements listed below?

A) "No one really knows why some patients get this diagnosis in their 30s, while others are in their 50s before they begin to have symptoms."
B) "Sometimes exposure to too much ultraviolet radiation causes changes in your gene sequencing and therefore mutations occur."
C) "Disruption in some proteins called molecular chaperones causes intracellular molecules to become denatured and insoluble leading to clumping and the development of inclusion bodies."
D) "Gene repression is a process by which a regulatory gene acts to reduce or prevent gene expression, thereby confusing the negative feedback mechanisms that could prevent disease formation."