International Headache Genetics Consortium

Summary:

International Headache Genetics Consortium (IHGC) is a multinational research collaboration studying genetic causes and background of headache and related disorders. It aims to boost research in this area by bringing together the increasing wealth of well-characterised genetic information and high quality diagnostic data, as well as analysis expertise, to discover basis for future treatments.

Consortium members include migraine research groups from Australia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK and USA.

Resources:

Databases

• IHGC GWAS: Summary statistics for migraine ( Database )
  

  Summary Statistics (top SNPs P<1e-5) for Gormley et al. Meta-analysis of 375,000 individuals identifies 38 susceptibility loci for migraine

Web Links:

• http://www.headachegenetics.org/