A genome-wide cross-phenotype meta-analysis of the association of blood pressure with migraine

• Main Authors: Guo, Y. (Yanjun), Rist, P. M. (Pamela M.), Daghlas, I. (Iyas), Giulianini, F. (Franco), Kurth, T. (Tobias), Chasman, D. I. (Daniel, I)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2020
• Subjects: Brigham; Brisbane; Davey; Jaakko; Kalle; Kari; Norway; Nydalen; Olli; Pekka; Queensland; St. Louis; Stacy; Iceland
• Online Access: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2020120399345

Abstract Blood pressure (BP) was inconsistently associated with migraine and the mechanisms of BP-lowering medications in migraine prophylaxis are unknown. Leveraging large-scale summary statistics for migraine (Ncases/Ncontrols = 59,674/316,078) and BP (N = 757,601), we find positive genetic correl...