Thursday, May 3, 2018

Are Migraines Genetic?

 
   

    A recent study was conducted to see whether or not certain migraine types are genetically passed down.  A lot of the time members of the same family all get the same migraines.  Previous research discovered that CACNA1A, ATP1A2, and SCN1A are genes that associated with a migraine and are inherited.  Another way they have been discovered to be inherited is that a migraine is polygenic. For this study they wanted to test what of the two or if both caused the migraines.
   
    In this study they discovered that the polygenic way was the answer. This means that more than one set of genes of causes the migraines in all the individuals in a family. This discovery can help to further develop drugs to help sufferers get treated for their migraine symptoms.

  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180503142926.htm

5 comments:

  1. Interesting, does that mean that drugs could specialize in what type of migraine they treat?

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  2. Interesting. For someone who experiences migraines from time to time, it makes me wonder is mine are related to my genetic information, or if there is another factor involved with them.

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  3. This is really interesting to me because I know someone who always seems to get headaches and migraines and so does his family members so this makes me wonder if this is the reason why this happens to them so much.

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  4. This is really interesting to me because I know someone who always seems to get headaches and migraines so does his family members so this makes me wonder if this is the reason why this happens so much.

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  5. Once dicovered, maybe they will be able to make drugs which can treat specific kinds of migraines. It will be very helpful to those that have to suffer migraines.

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