Re: autosomal dominant/recessive/x

[Guest guest]

In other words if I have a genetic dominant form of CMT (I do -- 1A)

and I have a child with someone who doesn't have CMT our child might

get my CMT gene or get my spouse's normal gene. That means it is a

50/50 coin toss for that child. Heads its CMT.

By some of the logic in this group, they would then believe that its

a forgone conclusion that the next coin toss is Tails, and the child

shouldn't have CMT. This next coin toss is completely independant

of the first and is not influenced by the first. The second Child

also has a 50/50 chance.

Some families come up heads every single time. Some like mine are

heads once and tails once. Some families are all tails. It is a

coin toss on every child.

Probability theory teaches us that, in the end when all the children

with one parent who has CMT are counted, 50 out of 100 will have CMT

and 50 will not.

Probability Theory also teaches us that half of the human population

are boys and half are girls. There is a small discrepency here but

it is very close. 51% Female 49% Male.

Mike