genetics and you

[nenny4]

do any of rootschats. listers look at the illnesses/conditions that their ancestors had I  have come up with. ....Diabetes mellitis.....asthma....angina..dupuytrens contracture(vikings disease) which is sometimes misdiagnosed as arthritis  this is just to name a few and as most of these run through families i have been keeping documentation on all these for my future generations of Australians since i am originally from Scotland and my children would not know about  any of the illnesses to prior family members..cheers nenny4

[suttontrust]

It's possible to do a form of family tree chart (there's a proper name for it which escapes me at the moment) to diagram how illnesses appear in a family.  If you've got a lot of information from death certificates etc. it would be worth doing that to show patterns of how genetic traits are passed from one generation to another.

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Nenny,

For more on this topic, have a look at this topic, too. Its very informative.

THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR FAMILY'S HEALTH HISTORY
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,45710.0.html

Bob