CMT info

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Hi everyone. I am a 50 year old man with CMT. I have had problems

with my feet since childhood and was diagnosed in 1993. I am currently

using a wheelchair and an electric scooter to get around and have some

problems with my hands. I have two brothers and a sister who have

either been dxd with CMT or have symptoms. Neither of my parents,

grandparents nor any of my aunts, uncles or cousins have had any

noticable symptoms. I have no children myself but I do have several

nieces and nephews and grand nieces and nephews and none of them have

shown symptoms as of yet. Does anyone else have this anomaly?

My siblings and I have gotten CMT fairly severely and yet there seems to be no

sign of it in generations prior or later. I have heard there is a type which

may manifest itself where both parents carry the recessive gene.

My parents are both of Irish and Scotch Irish ancestry and there may be a common

ancestor although none can be found in the three or four generations that I can

trace. Somewhere I heard that CMT is common among those with some Norman

ancesrty due to the intermarriage

of Normans during the 12th and 13th century. There are several Norman

originated names in my family tree. I am not sure of its validity as I

have not read it anywhere or have heard of that since. Anyone who

might enlighten me on any of these issues please do so.

Thank you,

Tom