The Family Member ME/CFS Prevalence Poll

[Cort]

Does ME/CFS crop up in families? Do other presumably allied disorders? Take the poll and lets find out! If at least one member of the following groups has something that appears to be ME/CFS (mysterious fatiguing and debilitating disorder doctors cannot figure out) please check them.

 

[Dolphin]

Leonard Jason paper on family illnesses among people with ME/CFS

People might be interested in this Leonard Jason paper from 2008:

Family illnesses among people with ME/CFS: Blood versus non-blood relatives

http://www.forums.aboutmecfs.org/sh...-with-ME-CFS-Blood-versus-non-blood-relatives.

 

[dannybex]

Does ME/CFS crop up in families? Do other presumably allied disorders? Take the poll and lets find out! If at least one member of the following groups has something that appears to be ME/CFS (mysterious fatiguing and debilitating disorder doctors cannot figure out) please check them.

What if no family members have been diagnosed with ME/CFS?

 

[Sasha]

What if no family members have been dianosed with ME/CFS?

That was going to be my question!

 

[Sasha]

Actually I wonder if it would be worth splitting the categories into each relationship (father, mother, aunt, uncle etc.) because one of the theories about XMRV is vertical transmission - also, if XMRV started out 30 years ago or something as people suspect and is becoming more prevalent, one might expect sibs & children to show higher prevalence than parents even though you share the same amount of genetic material.

 

[SOC]

Are we counting children in Immediate Family?

 

[Cort]

Yes! I need to add significant others and married partners.

I'm closing this poll and starting another one to incorporate the new ideas.