Migraine, inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease: A Mendelian randomization study.



Welander, Nike Zoe ORCID: 0000-0002-9562-7206, Rukh, Gull ORCID: 0000-0003-0000-7694, Rask-Andersen, Mathias ORCID: 0000-0002-8008-4659, Harder, Aster VE ORCID: 0000-0002-5477-7232, International Headache Genetics Consortium, , van den Maagdenberg, Arn MJM ORCID: 0000-0002-9310-5535, Schiöth, Helgi Birgir ORCID: 0000-0001-7112-0921 and Mwinyi, Jessica ORCID: 0000-0001-9976-5342
(2023) Migraine, inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease: A Mendelian randomization study. Headache, 63 (5). pp. 642-651.

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Abstract

<h4>Objective</h4>To assess whether migraine may be genetically and/or causally associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or celiac disease.<h4>Background</h4>Migraine has been linked to IBD and celiac disease in observational studies, but whether this link may be explained by a shared genetic basis or could be causal has not been established. The presence of a causal association could be clinically relevant, as treating one of these medical conditions might mitigate the symptoms of a causally linked condition.<h4>Methods</h4>Linkage disequilibrium score regression and two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization analyses were performed using summary statistics from cohort-based genome-wide association studies of migraine (59,674 cases; 316,078 controls), IBD (25,042 cases; 34,915 controls) and celiac disease (11,812 or 4533 cases; 11,837 or 10,750 controls). Migraine with and without aura were analyzed separately, as were the two IBD subtypes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Positive control analyses and conventional Mendelian randomization sensitivity analyses were performed.<h4>Results</h4>Migraine was not genetically correlated with IBD or celiac disease. No evidence was observed for IBD (odds ratio [OR] 1.00, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.99-1.02, p = 0.703) or celiac disease (OR 1.00, 95% CI 0.99-1.02, p = 0.912) causing migraine or migraine causing either IBD (OR 1.08, 95% CI 0.96-1.22, p = 0.181) or celiac disease (OR 1.08, 95% CI 0.79-1.48, p = 0.614) when all participants with migraine were analyzed jointly. There was some indication of a causal association between celiac disease and migraine with aura (OR 1.04, 95% CI 1.00-1.08, p = 0.045), between celiac disease and migraine without aura (OR 0.95, 95% CI 0.92-0.99, p = 0.006), as well as between migraine without aura and ulcerative colitis (OR 1.15, 95% CI 1.02-1.29, p = 0.025). However, the results were not significant after multiple testing correction.<h4>Conclusions</h4>We found no evidence of a shared genetic basis or of a causal association between migraine and either IBD or celiac disease, although we obtained some indications of causal associations with migraine subtypes.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: International Headache Genetics Consortium, Humans, Colitis, Ulcerative, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Celiac Disease, Epilepsy, Migraine without Aura, Genome-Wide Association Study, Mendelian Randomization Analysis
Divisions: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 26 Sep 2023 09:11
Last Modified: 26 Sep 2023 09:11
DOI: 10.1111/head.14470
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/head.14470
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3173050