The largest genetic study ever conducted on endometriosis has revealed significant overlap in genes associated with nearly a dozen other pain conditions, including migraines.
What causes the life-altering disease is more or less a mystery, although initial research suggests there's a strong genetic component.seem to be inheritable, and yet very few genetic risk factors have been identified to date.
Currently, there have been only 9 genome-wide association studies of endometriosis in populations of European and East Asian ancestry, and together, that data identifies about 19 genetic regions associated with the disease., led by the University of Queensland in Australia and the University of Oxford, has now more than doubled that number, bringing the suspect list to 42.
The study compared the genomes of 60,000 women with endometriosis and 700,000 women without the disease. The next largest study on the subject considered only 17,000 cases of endo. "Very little is known about the causes of endometriosis, but studying genetics can give us clues to the biological processes that are the basis for onset and progression,"In previous genetic studies, for instance, scientists have
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