This May Have HUGE Implications..

Breaking news on incidence of genetic markers for susceptibility to mitochondrial disease.

Excerpt:

'This ground breaking discovery confirms what researchers and experts have believed for some time - mitochondrial disease is not rare,' said Charles A. Mohan, Jr., Executive Director and CEO of UMDF. 'We now know that 1 in 200 people carry the mutation for this horrible, debilitating disease. This discovery underscores the need for additional research funding to help better diagnose and treat affected individuals and to learn more about how mitochondrial dysfunction is connected to other diseases.'


Don't have time to add my own thoughts/commentary right now.. am sure other bloggers will.. stay tuned. Age of Autism has already picked up the press release.. Im sure it'll trigger lots of comments.

Have a few moments to comment: While TG neither of my boys has full blown meta/mito disease, they have enough meta/mito dysfunction going on that things can get quite *interesting* when the boys have a flare. So I feel vindicated by the "We now know that 1 in 200 people carry the mutation for this horrible, debilitating disease" comment. Yes indeed, when the dysfunction issues rear their ugly heads out here, it IS *horrible* and *debilitating*....(and it's scary as hell to watch it happen and to know that there is very little I can do to stop things from happening.. what saves me from going crazy during the flares is that I understand what is happening and that I, by now, can do a lot to *take the edge* off)