Comments | neuroscience: Mitochondrial disease

lizardphunk in neuroscience

Mitochondrial disease

Mar 26, 2013 17:26

I'm making a student presentation on mitoochondrial disease (15 minute lecture).

As I'm sitting here reading my articles, it seems to me that a lot of the dieases are "more prevalent in Northern Europe" (be it nuclear or mitochondrial mutations affecting mitochondrial function).

Coincidentally, I am in Norway, so maybe that's why this popped out. I ( Read more... )

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nightshade1972 March 26 2013, 17:06:15 UTC

My MIL was born in Ireland and raised in England. I was born, here in the US, with congenital hydrocephalus. After I told her about it, she appeared very interested. She told me that hydrocephalus is apparently very prevalent in Ireland and England. I haven't actually looked into it myself, so I don't know if it's true or not. Have you heard of such a thing?

lizardphunk March 26 2013, 17:55:05 UTC

It might be - but hydrocephalus has many causes. And many types! This site has a good explanation ( ... )

nightshade1972 March 26 2013, 18:56:22 UTC

My MIL is nearly 85 (this Aug). My FIL is actually her second husband. She married him when she was 33. She had my husband (her only child) when she was 42. My MIL was born in Ireland and raised in England. She's the oldest of four sisters, and they all moved to Amarillo, TX after The Blitz. One of my husband's aunts had some sort of tumor behind her left ear, which they had to operate on multiple times when she was a child (this would have been in the '30s-'40s). There's a history of hereditary hearing loss on both side's of my husband's family, in his aunt's case it came on much earlier, and is much worse than her sisters', because of all the surgeries she had when she was young ( ... )