A

                              Guide to  

                          the Genetics of

                  Polycythaemia Vera (Rubra)

                                   &

                  Essential Thrombocythaemia

                              'PV & ET'




This website is for people with PV, ET, or just a positive JAK2 V617F test result
and for anyone interested in learning more about these diseases.

This website looks carefully at the possible link between this set of conditions
and a 'Maternal Age Effect' and 'Mitochondrial Haplogroup'.

I have written a paper that looks in detail as to how PV might be an inherited disease.
This paper is now available:
Is  Polycythaemia  Vera  a  maternally transmissible disease ?


                            An Opportunity to Contribute:

If you wish to help, please consider sharing a few of your family details
and any mitochondrial haplotype label you may have had given.
All your details will be very useful ... for more information:

               Click on:         Maternal Age Effect          Mitochondrial Haplogroups          Contact me