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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

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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! :lol:

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