My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.
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I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.
I've discovered that anxiety, panic attacks, and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges.
I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.
For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people.
My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.
When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.
My family and I were some of the first people to be genotyped.
My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.
When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.
My mother had multiple sclerosis.