Did Going North Give Us Migraine? An Evolutionary Approach on Understanding Latitudinal Differences in Migraine Epidemiology

This commentary discusses a recent publication by evolutionary biologists with strong implications for migraine experts. The Authors showed that a gene polymorphism associated with migraine gave our ancestors an evolutionary advantage when colonizing northern, and thus colder, territories. They then...

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Autores principales: Viganò, Alessandro, Manica, Andrea, Di Piero, Vittorio, Leonardi, Michela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Vox Clamantis
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6519367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30957222
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/head.13520
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Manica, Andrea
Di Piero, Vittorio
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description This commentary discusses a recent publication by evolutionary biologists with strong implications for migraine experts. The Authors showed that a gene polymorphism associated with migraine gave our ancestors an evolutionary advantage when colonizing northern, and thus colder, territories. They then highlight that the prevalence of migraine may differ among countries because of climatic adaptation. These results may prove useful in planning both epidemiological and physiological studies in the field of migraine.
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spelling pubmed-65193672019-05-23 Did Going North Give Us Migraine? An Evolutionary Approach on Understanding Latitudinal Differences in Migraine Epidemiology Viganò, Alessandro Manica, Andrea Di Piero, Vittorio Leonardi, Michela Headache Vox Clamantis This commentary discusses a recent publication by evolutionary biologists with strong implications for migraine experts. The Authors showed that a gene polymorphism associated with migraine gave our ancestors an evolutionary advantage when colonizing northern, and thus colder, territories. They then highlight that the prevalence of migraine may differ among countries because of climatic adaptation. These results may prove useful in planning both epidemiological and physiological studies in the field of migraine. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-04-07 2019-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6519367/ /pubmed/30957222 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/head.13520 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Headache Society This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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