Mediterranean heritage? Italian, Jewish, etc.

[kferricks]

German, Irish, Italian, Spanish, American Indian, English All American Mutts! lol

[3boysmom]

English, Irish, Scotch, Frech, Russian, Italian, Sirian, & Osage Indian! Complete American melting pot..... Do we win? Anyone beat that crazy mix?

[nicklemama]

My husband is German. I am Irish, English, Native American. Our son(adopted) is Russian.

[emmalily]

1/2 Italian, 1/4 Irish, the rest bits of English and German

Edited March 3, 2011 by emmalily

[PhillyPA]

Half Italian, Half German. My great-grandparents on my mother's side were Hasidic Jews, so I have Jewish ancestory.

[Kiera]

I'm Irish born, husband is 1/2 Austrian, 1/4 Scottish, 1/4 German!

[Kiera]

I'm Irish born, husband is 1/2 Austrian, 1/4 Scottish, 1/4 German!

[T_Mom]

English, Irish, and kids are 3/8ths Norwegian--any other Norwegians?

[norcalmom]

My son is 1/2 Irish, 1/4 Swede, and 1/4 German Jew .

[rockytop]

I am essentially 1/2 Gaelic & 1/2 Garlic (I love to write that!)(irish/italian if you cannot figure it out:)

 

 

So kids are about 1/4 irish; 1/4 italian maybe 1/4 german & 1/4 english..

 

lookng at family history, paternal grandmother had a very bad year when she was aorund 10 or so- that prevented attending school and was a "blur"-- got better when her tonsils were removed..

 

PANDAS in 1960, maybe?

 

We are unable to get any elaboration on symptoms, sadly.. but leaves us wondering.

Also, the maternal auto-immune history that Dr K has recognized, is very strong in my ITALIAN (and german) mother's family.

Crohn's, RA, temporal arteritis

 

interesting thread, certainly

[colleenrn]

My kids are 1/4 Italian, 1/4 German, 1/4 French, 1/8 Irish, and 1/8 English.

 

I was a PANDAS child and I am 1/4 English, 1/4 Irish, 1/2 French.

Colleen

[smartyjones]

interesting -- seems to be much irish -- having grown up with a father with a "irish temper" (who also seems to have narcolepsy), i have wondered in the past if that characteristic could be some genetic pre-determination that is really afflicted fight or flight symptom.

 

 

[Guest pandas16]

I'm 50% Italian and 50% French.

[GraceUnderPressure]

I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that the Irish are more genetically vulnerable to autoimmune issues because of the potato famine or something along those lines (may have been in a book about epigenetics that I read a few yrs back)

 

Anyway, my kids are mutts, too (isn't it unusual for American kids not to be?). They have German, Scotch, Cherokee, Belgian, Norwegian & Irish ancestry - those are only the parts we know about for sure!

[bronxmom2]

ds is also exactly 3/8 Norwegian! Also 1/4 Tongan (South Pacific). Rest is mutt.