ocr: Resident and Staff Physician Patiant Education Chart Scoliosis is an Inherited Disease Almost 90% of idiopathic curves are genetic * Variable expressivity May not pass to every generation Transmitted from a mother to I either son or daughter * From tather only to daughter Reprinted with permission from Resident and: Staff Physician (c)1991-92, 1993 by Romaine Pierson Publishers, Inc.