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Posted 11/22/2014 4:45 PM (GMT 0)
Not sure if I'm allowed to ask a personal question here, but I heard that CD is prevalent amongst Jews of Eastern European descent
Posted 11/22/2014 5:26 PM (GMT 0)
From what I read long ago, there was a higher percentage of Crohn's in Ashke**** Jews than in the general population. I don't know if that still holds with the rise in cases being diagnosed. When I was first diagnosed, I knew hardly no one with it. Then I started finding out about cases within my family and now it seems most people I talk to know at least a few people with it. And I live in a rural area.

I've researched my own family because we have Crohn's cases on both sides, but the family lines that we think may have actually been Jewish are not the lines that Crohn's has shown up in within my family.
Posted 11/22/2014 6:26 PM (GMT 0)
I am Jewish of Eastern European descent, so I fit the profile, but I have no relatives in my extended family that I know of with Crohn's disease. Lucky me:-)
Posted 11/22/2014 7:42 PM (GMT 0)
I'm eastern european Jewish as well. I would DEFINITELY convert if it cured my Crohns haha
Posted 11/22/2014 9:48 PM (GMT 0)
I found out I was Jewish when I was tracking my family history on ancestory.com. Was quite the surprise to my side of the family. Apparently there were some people that knew, but it was hush hush.
Posted 11/22/2014 10:55 PM (GMT 0)
My dad is Jewish of Eastern Europe descent, but the Crohn's came down through my mum's Irish side of the family.

I literally have inherited all the bad genes going in my family -_-
Posted 11/23/2014 1:16 AM (GMT 0)
Nope. No Jewish history in my family tree.
Posted 11/23/2014 1:50 PM (GMT 0)
i have a lot of European ancestors, and also some native american. what i found interesting when researching my family was that my great aunt died of some sort of unidentifiable bowel problems at 4 years old. its the only known case of any stomach problems in my family. maybe genetics has something to do with it. i think its our culture, a few hundred years ago it was almost none existent. living purely off the land is a thing of the past and i think that has a major part of the cause, we no longer know what is in our food or products people use everyday. nature is pure and people are not, our body's aren't meant to consume chemicals extracted by man and put into our body's. sorry im ranting, just my personal opinion. i wish i was born in another era.

Post Edited (Rango16) : 11/23/2014 8:12:13 AM (GMT-7)

Posted 11/23/2014 2:46 PM (GMT 0)
I do on my mom's side of the family, which came from East Germany (50%), Poland some Jewish (25%), and England only (25%), which passed Factor 5 Leiden which I did not inherit..My dad had UC and my Dad's side of the family was English (50%) & Scotch-Irish (50%) not Jewish..The same overall ailments I have are from my father's side of the family, which is my overall body structure.
Posted 11/24/2014 2:03 AM (GMT 0)
Just got my results back from the 23 And Me. They offer their service free for IBD folks in exchange for completing some surveys. I
turned out to be one tenth of one percent Jewish. I do recommend participating in their program, if you are interested in your heritage or want access to your raw genetic data.
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