Migraine Twin Studies

Authors

  • J Gordon Millichap Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-12-7-6

Keywords:

Environmental Factors, Tetrachoric Correlations, Dizygotic Twins

Abstract

The influence of genetic versus environmental factors in the etiology of migraine was investigated by studies of two samples of female twin pairs - 154 raised together and 43 raised apart since infancy, in a report from the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Published

1998-07-01

Issue

Section

Headache Disorders