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International Headache Genetics Consortium

 
 

An international collaboration between research teams interested in mechanisms and pathophysiology of headache and related disorders consisting of groups from Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Chaired by prof. Aarno Palotie at the Sanger Institute. admin@headachegenetics.org.

 

Website

 

 

Principal investigator or primary contact

Prof. Aarno Palotie

 

Primary phenotype

Migraine

 

Secondary phenotype(s)

Migraine with aura

Migraine without aura

 

Number of GWAS Studies Contributing to the Consortium

22

 

Approx. total number of subjects

125,000

 

GWAS data available

yes

 

Key References and Articles

[1]

[2]

 

References

  1. Genome-wide association study of migraine implicates a common susceptibility variant on 8q22.1. Anttila, V., Stefansson, H., Kallela, M., Todt, U., Terwindt, G.M., Calafato, M.S., Nyholt, D.R., Dimas, A.S., Freilinger, T., Müller-Myhsok, B., Artto, V., Inouye, M., Alakurtti, K., Kaunisto, M.A., Hämäläinen, E., de Vries, B., Stam, A.H., Weller, C.M., Heinze, A., Heinze-Kuhn, K., Goebel, I., Borck, G., Göbel, H., Steinberg, S., Wolf, C., Björnsson, A., Gudmundsson, G., Kirchmann, M., Hauge, A., Werge, T., Schoenen, J., Eriksson, J.G., Hagen, K., Stovner, L., Wichmann, H.E., Meitinger, T., Alexander, M., Moebus, S., Schreiber, S., Aulchenko, Y.S., Breteler, M.M., Uitterlinden, A.G., Hofman, A., van Duijn, C.M., Tikka-Kleemola, P., Vepsäläinen, S., Lucae, S., Tozzi, F., Muglia, P., Barrett, J., Kaprio, J., Färkkilä, M., Peltonen, L., Stefansson, K., Zwart, J.A., Ferrari, M.D., Olesen, J., Daly, M., Wessman, M., van den Maagdenberg, A.M., Dichgans, M., Kubisch, C., Dermitzakis, E.T., Frants, R.R., Palotie, A. Nat. Genet. (2010) [Pubmed]
  2. Genome-wide association study reveals three susceptibility loci for common migraine in the general population. Chasman, D.I., Schürks, M., Anttila, V., de Vries, B., Schminke, U., Launer, L.J., Terwindt, G.M., van den Maagdenberg, A.M., Fendrich, K., Völzke, H., Ernst, F., Griffiths, L.R., Buring, J.E., Kallela, M., Freilinger, T., Kubisch, C., Ridker, P.M., Palotie, A., Ferrari, M.D., Hoffmann, W., Zee, R.Y., Kurth, T. Nat. Genet. (2011) [Pubmed]
 
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