Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 W...... there is tons of evidence that autoimmune diseases run in families due to gene inheritance. I sent one page to the group and there are many others that say the same thing. Hope this helps. Jerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 nne and -- the New York Times Science Section ran a long piece this summer (around July 4, I think) on the strong familial relationships in autoimmune disease. I certainly wasn't happy to hear it. I believe the article is available on-line through the NYT. Harper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 , You might want to look at www.aarda.org You will find lots of info on autoimmune diseases and research there. There is also information about a study being conducted @ Hopkins on families and autoimmune diseases. A lot of docs dont believe autoimmune runs in families..but a lot do. You probably wont convince your doc otherwise, but at least if you have the information, and your family does, it can make some of those " mystery " ailments a lot easier to identify by bringing the family history into the mix. I had never heard of autoimmune ANYTHING until this summer when my 11 yr old was diagnosed with autoimmune thyroid. 2 months later I was diagnosed with AIH. When I found AARDA and read some of the information there..I was identifying other family members with things that are most likely autoimmune in nature. But as the saying goes...they dont see the forest for the trees.... Hope you find this source useful! nne > It seems that a lot of people here have several family members with > various autoimmune diseases. My mother, two of her sisters and one > brother have lupus, another aunt has Srogrens, my first cousin and > myself have fibromyalgia, and my sister has always had low platelet > counts. My mother's doctor has always said that AI disorders don't > run in families, but I believe otherwise. I now know how my mother > feels - she was always scared of passing something like this on to > her children, now I have my two to worry about. Does anyone know of > any sites that deal with genetics and autoimmune disease? > > W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 16, 2001 Report Share Posted February 16, 2001 Hi Everyone, Been away for a while.....mostly in hospitals....I have been lucky my liver has weathered the cancer...all gone now....and recently a heart attack. I guess my body is just stronger than me. I am starting to walk around and do things around the house, which is real nice. Once in a while I'll get a transfusion, but certainly doing much better. I always read the mail and know there are new members. Happy to see the site is still helping people...that's great. lydia 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 16, 2001 Report Share Posted February 16, 2001 Re the NYT (July?) 2000 article on autoimmune disease: I'm absolutely certain the article was in the NYT science section -- front page, bottom. I'm NOT sure that it is in the on-line version, although I had thought it would be. I don't think I have kept a copy of the article -- I think it went in a recent clean-up. Basically, the article dealt with the growing recognition of the familial pattern in autoimmune diseases. I'll make an on-line search myself sometime this week. (My daughter, incidentally, has had very severe chronic fatigue syndrome for many years. This isn't technically an autoimmune disease, but there is a connection.) Harper (AIH) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 16, 2001 Report Share Posted February 16, 2001 Lydia, what a lot you've surmounted! I'm glad to hear things are going well. Harper (AIH 5/00) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 16, 2001 Report Share Posted February 16, 2001 nne, , and Harper, I went to the NY site and searched under Autoimmune and Genetics and could only find an article from 1996. But the article you mentioned, I am not sure was published in NY Times. Harper, could you please check your resource -- Thanks. The 1996 article titled ""Virus Similarity to Body's Proteins may Explain Autoimmune Diseases" is quite interesting. For those interested check it out. Abstract is free but the article costs about $2.50 aumesh -------------- At 07:19 PM 02/15/2001 EST, you wrote: >>>> > nne and -- the New York Times Science Section ran a long piece > this summer (around July 4, I think) on the strong familial relationships in > autoimmune disease. I certainly wasn't happy to hear it. I believe the > article is available on-line through the NYT. > Harper > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 16, 2001 Report Share Posted February 16, 2001 Lydia... it so good to hear from you again. It seems that you are recovering nicely... Thats great, I`m glad things are going as well as they can. Take care of yourself. Love and serenity Jerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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