I mean, do the variants that you found, do they tell us anything about the nature of fibromyalgia, something we didn't know before?

Yeah, I think the biggest thing that we identified in this study is that a lot of the genetics of fibromyalgia is attributable to the nervous system.

So there are factors in the, the genes that act in the nervous system that are close to these genetic variants, and what that means is that probably some of the biology of fibromyalgia is biology of the nervous system.

Uh, and that can take many different forms, but I think that that's probably the biggest thing that we learned.

And then the other big thing that, that is kind of part of the story is that the factors that we identified for the genetics of fibromyalgia don't seem to be sex specific.

So individuals, regardless of sex, have the same risk from a genetic perspective that we understand for developing fibromyalgia.

How could this lead to better treatments?

So I think one of the big opportunities that this study reveals is that there's actually a lot of known genes that, that are being presented as part of the findings that we had in this work.