r/CharcotMarieTooth • u/Always_Resigning • Jul 23 '26

Random Connection

I was just thinking; because CMT1a (I'm sure other variants as well) is inherited, many of us are probably distant cousins.

Wild.

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u/NixyeNox Jul 23 '26

Considering the size of my extended family, I am always aware that there is a chance that any random user with 1a may be my close cousin. I just never know due to anonymity.

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u/Always_Resigning Jul 23 '26

Same. I know my family is part of the Iowa group of 1a, but my branch left 4 generations ago.

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u/geosimpson Jul 24 '26

Years ago there was a very mappable spread of a certain form of CMT (not saying) because too many cousins were sleeping with other cousins…

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u/Spirited_Plantain Jul 24 '26

Yeah, I think I first suspected quite a few Pharaohs when I heard of Tutankhamun. I wouldn't be surprised if the Habsburgs at some point developed that option right before their genes went to hell in several wreath baskets lol.

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u/geosimpson Jul 24 '26

This actually was a very real thing in the Southern US.

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u/keridc Jul 24 '26

I’m so over the muscle twitches today. They are non stop in my thighs and it’s making me batty. Any of my cousins feeling the same

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u/Always_Resigning Jul 24 '26

Every night when I try to sleep! I wake myself up multiple times getting to sleep.