Genetics can be the cause of arthritis and thus be passed on from parents to children, with women being particularly affected at a certain age. It should be borne in mind that, according to recent studies, between 3 and 5% of patients suffer from this disease due to hereditary factors. So in reality the transmission from father and mother to child is relatively low.
A special case is juvenile idiopathic arthritis. It is known that the HLA-DR4 antigen of the immune system is present in all these diseases, and it is currently being studied whether JIA is caused by hereditary factors.