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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-9-8
pubmed:abstractText
Since the time of Liveing and Gowers in the nineteenth century, migraine has been thought to be inherited, although family history has been widely studied, nearly all the reports are not scientifically based and studies on twins have never shown 100% concordance in monozygotic (MZ) pairs, indicating that migraine cannot be inherited by a single gene. Furthermore, the criteria for a polygenic trait are not fulfilled by migraine patients. The only two syndromes with a strong genetic basis of inheritance are familial hemiplegic migraine and migraine occurring in Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy with Lactic Acidosis and Stroke-like episodes (MELAS). It is the predisposition to headache that is likely to be inherited; this is supported by the induction of migraine-like headaches with either m-chlorophenyl-piperazine (m-CPP) or nitroglycerin in normal subjects with a positive family history for migraine.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0369-8114
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
40
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
284-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Migraine and heredity.
pubmed:affiliation
Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review