Labels:text | clothing | human face | smile | woman | cartoon OCR: Resident and Staff Physician Patient 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 either son or daughter * From father only to daughter Reprinted with permission from Resident and Staff Physician (c) 1991-92, 1993 by Romaine Pierson Publishers, Inc.