14 DAY TRIAL // Ever since she was a child, professor Emily Bates has been suffering with awful migraines. This compelled her to take a personal interest in this matter, and try to figure out the underlying causes of this condition.
The researcher now says that, together with a team of scientists led by Louis Ptáček of University of California, San Francisco, she has succeeded in pinning down the gene flaw responsible for causing 1 in 4 women and 1 and 12 men to be affected by migraines. Medical News Today explains that the flaw that Emily Bates labeled as the cause of migraines is located in a gene known to the scientific community as casein kinase I delta.
The researchers expect that their findings will eventually translate into their being able to roll out better ways of dealing with this condition.
“This is the first gene in which mutations have been shown to cause a very typical form of migraine. It’s our initial glimpse into a black box that we don’t yet understand.”
“As we come to a clearer understanding, we can start to think about better therapies. The need for better treatments is huge,” Professor Louis Ptáček reportedly said.