Etiology of primary headaches: the importance of genes and environment.

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Results from twin studies show that genes play an important role for susceptibility to migraine. The propensity for migraine to run in some families but not in others arises predominantly from alleles shared by family members and not the shared family environment, and that environmental influences on migraine are unique to the affected family member. The main genetic and environmental architecture for the other...

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