How to start compiling your medical family tree:
Begin your medical family tree by making a list of your blood relatives, both living and deceased:
First-degree relatives: your parents, siblings, and children
Second-degree relatives: your grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and half-siblings
Third-degree relatives: great-grandparents, first cousins, great-aunts and great-uncles
Jot down birth dates and death dates wherever you can.
Do not include people who are related to you by marriage or adoption.
...if there are gaps in your family tree, your parents or siblings may be able to supply some of the missing information when you speak to them.
- Excerpted and edited
- Courtesy of the Genetic Disease Foundation
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