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Inheritance of chronic tension-type headache investigated by complex segregation analysis
M B Russell1, L Iselius, S Ostergaard
1Department of Neurology, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Human Genetics
|April 1, 1998
Abstract:
We investigated the mode of inheritance of chronic tension-type headache in 122 families. The probands were from the Copenhagen Headache Clinic, Denmark. The criteria of the International Headache Society were used. The patterns of segregation of chronic tension-type headache were assessed by complex segregation analysis performed with the computer program POINTER. Of the 122 probands with chronic tension-type headache, 56 had 71 first-degree relatives with chronic tension-type headache. The complex segregation analysis indicates that chronic tension-type headache has multifactorial inheritance.