Sigrid Børte

  • MD, PhD
  • +47 928 50 480

Background: Sigrid Børte has a medical doctor degree from the University of Oslo. She finished her internship before starting her Ph.D.

Research Project: Sigrid Børte is working with the Ph.D project “Genetic and environmental causes of migraine, a large-scale family-based analysis”, using the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study, a large population cohort from Trøndelag, Norway. In addition, she is involved in the HUNT-All-in neuropsychiatry group.    

(Main supervisor/Co supervisor): Bendik S. Winsvold (main supervisor) and John-Anker Zwart (co supervisor)

Methodology and interests: Epidemiology, genetics, mitochondrial genetics

Publications

  1. Børte, S., Winsvold, B. S., Stensland, S. Ø., Sm, C., & Zwart, J. (2017). The effect of foetal growth restriction on the development of migraine and tension-type headache in adulthood . The HUNT Study, 1–12.
  2. Johnsen, M. B., Winsvold, B. S., Børte, S., Vie, G., Pedersen, L. M., Storheim, K., … Zwart, J. A. (2018). The causal role of smoking on the risk of headache. A Mendelian randomization analysis in the HUNT study. European Journal of Neurology, 25(9), 1148-e102. https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.13675
  3. Gormley, P., Anttila, V., Winsvold, B. S., Palta, P., Esko, T., Tune, H., … Lee, P. H. (2016). Meta-analysis of 375 , 000 individuals identifies 38 susceptibility loci for migraine, 1–29.
  4. Gormley, P., Kurki, M., Hiekkala, M. E., Veerapen, K., Häppölä, P., Mitchell, A. A., … Ripatti, S. (2018). Common Variant Burden Contributes to the Familial Aggregation of Migraine in 1,589 Families. Neuron, 98(4), 743–753.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.04.014