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Genetic and lifestyle risk factors for MRI-defined brain infarcts in a populati...
Chauhan, Ganesh; Adams, Hieab H.H.; Satizabal, Claudia L.; Bis, Joshua C.; Teumer, Alexander; Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan; Hofer, EdithObjective: To explore genetic and lifestyle risk factors of MRI-defined brain infarcts (BI) in large population-based cohorts. Methods: We performed meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and examined associations of vascular risk factors and their genetic risk scores (GRS) with MRI-defined BI and a subset of BI, namely, small subcortical BI (SSBI), in 18 population-based cohorts (n = 20,949) f...
NOTCH3 variants and risk of ischemic stroke
Ross, Owen A.; Soto-Ortolaza, Alexandra I.; Heckman, Michael G.; Verbeeck, Christophe; Serie, Daniel J.; Rayaprolu, Sruti; Rich, Stephen S.Background: Mutations within the NOTCH3 gene cause cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL). CADASIL mutations appear to be restricted to the first twenty-four exons, resulting in the gain or loss of a cysteine amino acid. The role of other exonic NOTCH3 variation not involving cysteine residues and mutations in exons 25-33 in ischemic stroke remains u...