Two " others " were elected in constituencies: Dennis Canavan and Jean Turner, who both stood as independents.

Dennis Canavan, who had failed to become an approved Labour candidate, won the Falkirk West constituency as an independent candidate.

The previous MSP, Dennis Canavan, who sat as an Independent, was elected with the largest majority in the Scottish parliament representing Falkirk's electorate's displeasure with New Labour, but stepped down in 2007 for family reasons.

In 1999 and 2003 he contested the Falkirk West seat in the Scottish Parliament, which was won both times by independent Dennis Canavan, who had been rejected by the Labour Party.

* Canavan will not fight election, bbc. co. uk, 23 January 2007

* Canavan receives Holyrood ovation, bbc. co. uk, 25 January 2007

Matheson won the constituency in the 2007 election, after Canavan stepped down.

He hosted a Friday evening talk show on Radio Clyde, and in June 1971 was beaten by Dennis Canavan when he applied for the seat of West Stirlingshire.

In September 2009 Dennis Canavan said Dewar reacted callously when his son was diagnosed with skin cancer in 1989.

Canavan disease was first described in 1931 by Myrtelle Canavan.

A subsequent lawsuit brought by the Canavan Foundation against the Miami Children's Hospital was resolved with a sealed out-of-court settlement.

Dennis Andrew Canavan ( born 8 August 1942 ) is a Scottish politician, and was an Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament ( MSP ) for Falkirk West.

He was first elected to parliament in the 2000 Falkirk West by-election, which was prompted by the resignation of Dennis Canavan.

* Dennis Canavan, the Scottish politician and Member of Parliament for Falkirk West was born in Cowdenbeath in 1942 and attended St Brides Primary School.

The vacancy was caused the resignation from the House of Commons of Dennis Canavan, the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Falkirk West.

The notion that the day should be an official bank holiday was first proposed by Dennis Canavan, Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament for Falkirk West in 2003.

Canavan was born in Kew, in Melbourne, Australia and grew up in the suburb of Ferntree Gully.

* At the 2003 Ditmars, Canavan won the " Best Short Story " award with " Room for Improvement ", published in Foreign Shores ; The High Lord was nominated for " Best Novel " and her cover for Fables & Reflections 5 was nominated for the " Best Professional Artwork " award.

Falkirk is the successor to Falkirk West, the constituency Canavan represented at Westminster from 1983 to 2000.

* The Falkirk West by-election in the UK, resulting from the resignation of Dennis Canavan, is won by Eric Joyce for Labour.

He successfully identified the gene in 1993, and developed a test for it that would enable antenatal counselling of couples at risk of having a child with Canavan disease.

* Dennis Canavan MSP Biography at the Scottish Parliament website

* Dennis Canavan MSP Biography at personal website

This process saw many of the more left-oriented candidates rejected, including Dennis Canavan, Ian Davidson, Michael Connarty, all of whom were sitting Members of Parliament at the time, as well as Tommy Shephard, a former General Secretary of the Labour Party in Scotland.

* Michael Canavan as extraction room doctor at Merrick Biotech

* Canavan Page at Ancestry. com

Her work on Canavan disease started at Yale, where she collaborated with other early pioneers in gene therapy.

* Dennis Canavan ( expelled in 2000 for running as an independent for the Scottish Parliament )

Throughout his entire political life, Canavan played a leading part in the campaign for a Scottish Parliament.

Canavan enjoys hill-walking and, in the Scottish Parliament, he championed the people's right of access to the countryside, successfully introducing amendments to the Land Reform ( Scotland ) Bill in order to extend the right of access to country estates, including land belonging to the Queen.

In April 2010, Canavan declared his support for John McNally, the Scottish National Party candidate for Falkirk in the 2010 general election.

At the 2003 Scottish Parliamentary elections, three MSPs were elected as Independents: Dennis Canavan ( Falkirk West ), Dr Jean Turner ( Strathkelvin and Bearsden ) and Margo MacDonald ( Lothians ).

Canavan had first been elected for West Sterlingshire in the October 1974 election as a Labour Party candidate, and had held that seat until its abolition in 1983.

Human diseases where dysmyelination has been implicated include leukodystrophies ( Pelizaeus – Merzbacher disease, Canavan disease, phenylketonuria ) and schizophrenia.

Canavan disease has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.

When a person has Canavan Disease, his or her levels of N-acetyl aspartate are chronically elevated.

The lithium citrate has proven that, in a rat genetic model of Canavan Disease, the lithium citrate significantly decreased the levels of N-acetyl aspartate.

Canavan has endorsed Matheson for re-election in 2011.

Recently, she has been funded by NIH-NINDS and Jacob's Cure to study the potential of subpopulations of stem cells to promote remyelination and phenotypic rescue in animal models of white matter disease, including the Canavan mouse model.

Honorary degrees have been received by many famed individuals including former President of the United States Bill Clinton, former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, poet Seamus Heaney, writers Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness and Colm Tóibín, activists May Blood and Aung San Suu Kyi, actors Amanda Burton and Ewan McGregor, racehorse trainer Vincent O ' Brien, bishops Seán Brady, Robin Eames, James Mehaffey, Edward Daly and Desmond Tutu, singers Enya, Van Morrison and Tommy Makem, politician John Hume, biotechnologist Charles Hamner, politicians and writers Garrett Fitzgerald and Conor Cruise O ' Brien, US lawyer John Connorton, US diplomat Jim Lyons, Gaelic football player Peter Canavan, rugby player David Humphreys, golfers Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell, last governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten and triple jumper Jonathan Edwards.

The discovery of the gene for Canavan disease, and subsequent events, generated considerable controversy.

In 1987 the Greenbergs, a family with two children affected by Canavan disease, donated tissue samples to Dr Reuben Matalon, a researcher looking for the Canavan gene.

Canavan disease is caused by a defective ASPA gene which is responsible for the production of the enzyme aspartoacylase.

There is no cure for Canavan disease, nor is there a standard course of treatment.

This evidence suggests that a larger controlled trial of lithium may be warranted as supportive therapy for children with Canavan disease.

A healthy gene is cloned to take over for the defective one that causes Canavan disease.

Zoned campuses include Anna S. Canavan Elementary School for pre-kindergarten, in grades K-5, the western portion of the city is zoned to Florence J. Scott Elementary and the eastern portion is zoned to Roel and Celia Saenz Elementary School.

These studies will provide a foundation for a targeted and comprehensive analysis of the potential of a cell-based therapy for Canavan Disease.