Can I get on disability if I have Tourette's syndrome?

Tourettes syndrome plz help?

• lets say the dad has tourette syndrome....he has 2 girls and a boy, will the all have tourettes? and if all his children get married and have kids,,will they have tourettes? im doing this for a pedigree tree map

• Answer:

  Tourette is of unknown genetic penetrance. Generally speaking, a child to someoen with TS might have TS or might not. For instance, one of my best friends has TS. But she has no family history of TS or tics at all. I have severe TS. My brother has tics. My dad had chronic tics during childhood. So we'd all be affected on a tree. My mom was not, but she could have been a carrier---ugh, this is very complicated, see, because the genes responsible for TS, along with the environmental factors that contribute to its development or lack thereof, are as yet unkown. It is a field of intense research for scientists interested in TS (look up Rutgers University Tourette Syndrome Cells, and Tourette Syndrome Genetic Research, and Yale Child Study Center JF Leckman) are neck deep in this, trying their hardest on it. But few leads have been made as of yet. Only a few isolated mutatiosn have been spotted, and are known to be present in only a few, maybe a dozen people with TS out of the entire population with TS sampled in the genetics studies. I wish they did know...it would be very nice to know. I've done my part--I've been in one of the genetics studies, as have my parents. Say, if you DID do a square charting the possible penetrances of a TS gene--if there is even a single gene---likely much more likely, a group of different defective alleles which when all combined create the higher likelihood of having TS, not causing it outright--it is very important you understand all your tree would be completely speculative. Or you could use my family as an example.... Dad: XT Y Mom: XX Daughter: XTXt Son: XTY I don't know that my mom doesn't carry a recessive for it, or that my dad carries a dominant--remember, this is all speculative. Because nobody knows. It isn't well enoguh researched yet to reach any valid conclusion on the genetics of TS, other than they almost certainly exist but we don't know squat about them!