Scientists find gene that links migraine with colder climes

If you suffer from migraine, the culprit could be a gene labelled TRPM8

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The researchers discovered that a variant of the gene has become increasingly common in people living in higher latitudes over the last 25,000 years. Scientists had previously identified the variant as being strongly associated with migraines. They discovered that 88 percent of people with Finnish ancestry carried the variant, compared with only 5 percent of people with Nigerian ancestry. The genetic variation was, and still is, rare in Africa, but is now common outside of the continent.

The researchers:

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Felix Key of the Max Planck Institute based in Germany, examined TRPM8, a gene that codes for the only known receptor that enables a person to detect and respond to cool and cold temperatures.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...headaches.html

This is interesting as I know so many people who claim never to have had a headache in their life, when I had assumed everybody has them now and then.

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