Hi . when I first started digging into the family history, that was one of the main reasons that I began, now its just more for fun, as mosy of the answers I have already found. asthma can be gentic glomaca can be gentic obesity , the being if short or tall blur eyed or what ever, also in some cases some types of mental retardation, the futher I dug the more I disliked what I was finding. but in the long run it was very helpful to my Doctors. and be ver careful as allergies can be passed from gereration to generation Believe me I know! Seems if I got all they had to offer, Now hooked to a 50 foot oxygen tube- just like Father, grandfather, and several others in my paternal line. christy ----- Original Message ----- From: <ConPutnam@aol.com> To: <HODGES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 5:57 PM Subject: [HODGES-L] Insanity Question.... > Wondering....? The brother of my maternal g-grandfather ended up in insane > institution. Haven't done any research on insanity per se [yet] and there > seem to be no other known instances in this family line...[that's not to say > that I don't have my share of crazy relatives]....Has anyone done any > research on the genetics of this? Is it primarily considered environmental > and stress related.....or are there several types of insanity and multiple > causal factors? Guess I'm not asking a simple yes or no type question, but > perhaps someone out there has some references for the layperson to peruse? > Thanks for suggestions......connie > > > ==== HODGES Mailing List ==== > Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Archives help at: http://www.shelby.net/shelby/jr/robertsn/rwsearch.htm > New threaded Archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ >