for December 2006: Are there relatives who have EMS?
Yes, there are people who are related who got EMS, including first cousins, parent and one child, both parents and one child, parent and two children (son and daughter), and other combinations. Also, there are husbands and wives who both have the disease (though they are not, of course, related by blood.) I myself have a cousin who got EMS when she was about 75 years of age. I was 39 when I got it, and neither of us knew the other had used tryptophan until later.
