Angela
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Interestingly, 23andme data was important in this study by the Broad Institute, Harvard.
See:
http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/new-genetic-associations-found-for-migraines/
"[FONT="]Along with identifying 44 variants associated with migraines, the findings also point to vascular dysfunction as one of the biological underpinnings for the disease. Researchers have debated for years whether vascular or neuronal dysfunction could explain a propensity for migraines. This study provides the first genetic evidence pointing to vascular dysfunction as a potential cause.[/FONT][FONT="]
Read more at http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/new-genetic-associations-found-for-migraines/#wV0GYakVSU5WF4H6.99"
I could have told them that...in fact I did tell 23andme that, a number of times.
I saw it work with my mother. She suffered from debilitating migraines most of her adult life. Then, when she developed high blood pressure and started taking medication for it they disappeared never to return. I never suffered from them the way my mother did, but both my brother and I had them, the horrifying kind where in addition to the pain you get visual disturbances and sometimes acute nausea. We both got high blood pressure later on, took the medications, and poof! voila'! gone. [/FONT]
See:
http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/new-genetic-associations-found-for-migraines/
"[FONT="]Along with identifying 44 variants associated with migraines, the findings also point to vascular dysfunction as one of the biological underpinnings for the disease. Researchers have debated for years whether vascular or neuronal dysfunction could explain a propensity for migraines. This study provides the first genetic evidence pointing to vascular dysfunction as a potential cause.[/FONT][FONT="]
Read more at http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/new-genetic-associations-found-for-migraines/#wV0GYakVSU5WF4H6.99"
I could have told them that...in fact I did tell 23andme that, a number of times.
I saw it work with my mother. She suffered from debilitating migraines most of her adult life. Then, when she developed high blood pressure and started taking medication for it they disappeared never to return. I never suffered from them the way my mother did, but both my brother and I had them, the horrifying kind where in addition to the pain you get visual disturbances and sometimes acute nausea. We both got high blood pressure later on, took the medications, and poof! voila'! gone. [/FONT]