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11. Pain tolerance

We can’t compare the levels of pain that people tolerate. While some people can burst into tears when they are feeling a certain level of pain, others can barely notice anything.

In conformity with a research that was presented at the American Association of Neurology’s annual meeting in 2014, it had been found that this difference in pain tolerance is partly because of genetics.

In order to do this research, several scientists separated four certain genes that are responsible for affecting the way someone perceives pain. This can be good news for those who are suffering from chronic pain, and it also can lead to a deeper understanding of this condition.

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8 thoughts on “14 Things That You Inherited From Your Parents”

  1. dennis joseph donahue

    my grandfather on my mother’s side was called “Black Tom Murphy” …because of his black hair. I am 86 and just started to have some gray in my black hair!!!!

  2. My grandmother once found a picture of what she though was my dad and I and asked when it was taken. I looked at the pic but didn’t recognize it. I turned it over and it was taken in 1971, 7 years before I was even born. The picture was of my mom and dad, and that’s the day I realized I look exactly like my mother.

  3. Agustin G Puente

    Very interesting about the telomeres. I was thirty one years old and always got carded. According to some people I looked eighteen or twenty.

  4. Dear ladies and Gentlemen,
    You did NOT cover two conditions that I did inherit from my ancestors, and you could have mentioned them. One is partial color blindness, which I didn’t realize that I had, but when I took an Army Physical in 1970, I was informed that I have Red-Green color blindness, which I probably got from my mother’s side. Another trait that I know that I received from my mother’s side is an Essential Tremor. My mother’s father had a fairly severe case of this. He was as farmer, in the country, outside of Buffalo, NY. in the early 1900s. My sister also inherited this trait. My mother was one of four children (2 boys, 2 girls). All were married and had children, but my sister and I were the only lucky ones to have this trait appear. I am trying to find out if anyone else on my grandfather’s side exhibited this trait. No success so far.

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