It will be very interesting to hear the results of this test, if you are willing to share. Maybe they only needed a second sample of your son's DNA because a labby dropped it, it got contaminated, or it didn't turn out in the PCR machine, or they left the gel running too long and lost it all? Could have been many things gone wrong with his sample. I'm sure it's nothing to be too concerned about.
My daughter is too old to be in the study sample, she is 20. She won't even get another x-ray unless she has pain. She doesn't want to be exposed to the radiation, can't say that I blame her, though. There are risks with everything.
Something kind of interesting though, is my son has such a slight curvature that it's not considered "scoliosis" but he does have spina bifida occulta, which I also have. I wonder if there is a correlation there. Maybe a different study is being conducted on that. I'm not up on all the current studies, my life has been going in a completely different direction until recently.
I also wonder if there is a correlation to the gene/s connected with Marfan's syndrome, as scoliosis is very common in people with Marfan's. I have a nephew with Marfan's. My personal opinion is that it is that not one single gene is involved. And if a person gets a "good" copy of a gene and a "bad" copy of the same gene, there can still be enough bad protein (gene product) floating around that the good stuff isn't enough to completely suppress the disease. That would explain why my daughter has a very mild case.
In conclusion to this, all I can say is I need to read the reasearch that's been done. Something I have obviously neglected to do. I feel priviledged to have been part of the study and hope some good comes from it.
I look forward to hearing from you. I hope I wasn't confusing or too off topic.
