People who suffer from migraine headaches appear to express more genes that produce platelets, the specialized components in blood that are involved in clotting, researchers report. This finding could lead to “future identification of migraine sub-types that would be able to be identified by a blood test,” Dr. Andrew D. Hershey told Reuters Health. “This may evolve into individualized treatment based on the gene expression.” Hershey, at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, and his colleagues note in the medical journal Headache that migraine has a strong genetic component.
