Word: internist
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...what can you really understand about the general population by studying a single family in the Netherlands? "When you have an isolated population, your findings may not be true of the population at large," acknowledges Dr. Ellen Schur, an internist at the University of Washington, who has also studied the link between migraines and depression. But her study of 1,064 pairs of female twins, published in the journal Headache in 2009, supports the idea of a common genetic link. Schur found that among her twin sets, migraine was inherited 44% of the time and depression 58%. When one sibling...