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[HeatherB]

HeatherB.

 

I'm wondering if you caught my 2 posts to you, right above myrose's welcome message?

 

Kim - thank you for bumping this thread up - and thank you for the links!!!! I am going to print both out so I can read carefully. I am starting a file of articles like this - as I try to piece the puzzle together - I really, really appreciate you thinking of my son!!!!

 

Speaking of - I now see the OCD component with tourettes big time in my son. He is playing baseball and I nearly cried tonight watching him play. Jumping on and off the plate, shoulder shrugging, measuring his feet with his bat before batting, throwing his mitt - it just mushroomed tonight. I am in the process of talking with naturopaths and homeopaths and I don't know which way to go. I talked to a naturopath today in our area (I'm about an hour from SF - in the central valley of No. California). She sounded great but said that I could expect to pay $300-500 per month on supplements. Do you all pay that much? And more importantly, how can I get my pill hating kid to take that much? I feel so overwhelmed right now.

 

Sorry - I am rambling. It feels like my sweet boy has been overtaken with anxiety and compulsions and oh - this is tough.

 

Heather

[kim]

Heather

 

I don't know how closely you have been following some of the threads here, but I wanted to post this as I think it may be important to your son. These are the same family of genes that are implicated in the benign tumor that my son has on his ankle.

Would love to hear how your little guy is doing!

 

http://www.genome.org/cgi/content/abstract/7/1/10

 

We have localized this gene by fluorescence in situ hybridization to metaphase chromosomes and by whole genome radiation hybrid mapping to chromosome 1p36.1 between DIS458 and DIS511, region that frequently shows loss of heterozygosity in a variety of tumor types. This gene, EXTL (for EXT-like), is therefore a new member of the EXT gene family and is a potential candidate for several disease phenotypes.

 

A Region of Consistent Deletion in Neuroblastoma Maps within Human ...Allelic Losses at 1p36 and 19q13 in Gliomas: Correlation with Histologic .... Identification and localization of the gene for EXTL, a third member of the

 

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/92/12/5520

A Region of Consistent Deletion in Neuroblastoma Maps within Human Chromosome 1p36.2-36.3

 

Allelic losses at 1p36 and 19q13 in gliomas: correlation with ...Allelic losses at 1p36 and 19q13 in gliomas: correlation with histologic ... Because most 1p deletions in gliomas involve almost the entire chromosome arm, ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15709179