Chapter 4: What is CMT
So CMT is the diagnosis Teddy got, but what in the actual does that mean? Well from what I have gathered and learned CMT is a hereditary condition that affects the peripheral nervous system, mainly in the feet and lower legs and hands and upper arms, but there are many different variations, and different ways CMT may become present in your genetic code. CMT is the most common of the neuropathy disorders affecting 1 in 2500 people. So let's go through some of the ways it can be passed down and some of the different variants. CMT can be and is usually passed from parent to child. This can mean that one parent may pass on the mutated gene to their child, this is in a autosomal dominant. Another way is both parents have an abnormal gene which causes the mutation of the gene in the child, thus in a recessive fashion. You can also get CMT inherited in a X linked way, so the gene is located on the X Chromosome. You can also have no apparent history of ...