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Is Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD) hereditary?
Here you can see if Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD) can be hereditary. Do you have any genetic components? Does any member of your family have Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD) or may be more predisposed to developing the condition?
No its not . I have done my dna and I am mixed with caucus and scandinavian and many other ethnicities
Posted Sep 17, 2017 by Tina Cavitt 3820
No it is not, but I have read that genetics may play a role. I have the illness and nobody in my family has it (No parents, uncles, cousins,grandparents or siblings). Our bodies may however have a tendency to be more susceptible to certain foods or environment.
Posted Nov 19, 2018 by Miguel 300
Not necessarily, but some families may be predisposed to it.
Posted Nov 19, 2018 by Kelly 5450
4 people in my family have mctd.My father's sister, my father, my sister, & myself.
Posted Nov 20, 2018 by Dorthy 100
My family is cluttered with autoimmune dieases. My mother had Multiple Sclerosis. Her maternal aunt had scleroderma. My mother's sister had Lupus. My sister has fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid Arthritis and Raynauld's and Diabetes disease. I have fibromyalgia, diabetes, Aortic stenosis, MCTD.
Posted Jun 6, 2021 by Vicsmith4758 100
This is purely anecdotal, but while no one else in my family has MCTD, there are others with autoimmune diseases. My sister has multiple autoimmune diseases, my cousin on my dad’s side has myasthenia gravis. Her mother had discoid lupus. My mother has pyroderma gangrenosum, which is sort of autoimmune adjacent.
Posted Jun 29, 2021 by Valerie 100
