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Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of migraine in the Norfolk Island population.
Human genetics - 1 Oct 2015
Rodriguez-Acevedo A J, Ferreira M A, Benton Miles C, Carless Melanie A, Goring Harald H, Curran Joanne E, Blangero John, Lea R A, Griffiths L R
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Migraine has been defined as a common disabling primary headache disorder. Epidemiology studies have provided with the undeniable evidence of genetic components as active players in the development of the disease under a polygenic model in which multiple risk alleles exert modest individual effects. Our objective was to test the contribution of a polygenic effect to migraine risk in the Norfolk Island population...
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