Jim Flett Wilson from the University of Edinburgh, who led the study, reports that people living on the Shetland Islands in northern Scotland have a one-in-41 chance of carrying the gene variant which causes Batten disease, a life-limiting neurodegenerative disease.

这项研究的负责人、爱丁堡大学的吉姆·弗莱特·威尔逊 (Jim Flett Wilson) 报告说，居住在苏格兰北部设得兰群岛的人有四十分之一的机会携带导致巴顿病 (一种缩短寿命的神经退行性疾病) 的基因变异。