family neuromuscular diseases

[Guest guest]

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I have been thinking along the same lines, when I saw that research I

posted earlier, it made me remember something. My father had a younger

sister, who died when she was 4. No one every really talked about this,

but her death was listed as pneumonia - which could have been true.

(like this would have been in about 1925 or so) In later years, as an

adult, one day my Mom and I were talking and she told me Dad's little

sister, , had Down's Syndrome. I haven't spent much time looking

into Downs (heck, I have all I can do with CMT, lol) but Down's is from

an X linked inheritance, I think, and there is a type of CMT (or rather

3 types now of CMT) that are X linked. Since I have never been DNA

tested for CMT, and since my EMG/NCV's, etc., are normal, and since I

guess I am midly affected, sometimes I wonder if I just could have a

Type of CMT X.

Just my thoughts.

~ Gretchen