Jo Cameron says she had no idea until a few years ago that there was anything that unusual about how little pain she feels.
"Learning about it now fascinates me as much as it does anyone else.Mrs Cameron's pain insensitivity was diagnosed by Dr Devjit Srivastava, an NHS consultant in anaethesia and pain medicine, and she was referred to pain geneticists at UCL and the University of Oxford.
The FAAH gene is known to pain researchers as it is involved in endocannabinoid signalling, which is central to pain sensation, mood and memory. Dr James Cox, of UCL Medicine, said:"We found this woman has a particular genotype that reduces activity of a gene already considered to be a possible target for pain and anxiety treatments.
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