1. Common variants at 6p21.1 are associated with large artery atherosclerotic stroke
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Holliday, EG, Maguire, JM, Evans, TJ, Koblar, SA, Jannes, J, Sturm, JW, Hankey, GJ, Baker, R, Golledge, J, Parsons, MW, Malik, R, McEvoy, M, Biros, E, Lewis, MD, Lincz, LF, Peel, R, Oldmeadow, C, Smith, W, Moscato, P, Barlera, S, Bevan, S, Bis, JC, Boerwinkle, E, Boncoraglio, GB, Brott, TG, Brown, RD, Cheng, YC, Cole, JW, Cotlarciuc, I, Devan, WJ, Fornage, M, Furie, KL, Grétarsdóttir, S, Gschwendtner, A, Ikram, MA, Longstreth, WT, Meschia, JF, Mitchell, BD, Mosley, TH, Nalls, MA, Parati, EA, Psaty, BM, Sharma, P, Stefansson, K, Thorleifsson, G, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Traylor, M, Verhaaren, BFJ, Wiggins, KL, Worrall, BB, Sudlow, C, Rothwell, PM, Farrall, M, Dichgans, M, Rosand, J, Markus, HS, Scott, RJ, Levi, C, Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, and Epidemiology
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Linkage disequilibrium ,Population ,Genome-wide association study ,Biology ,Bioinformatics ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Article ,Linkage Disequilibrium ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,Genetics ,medicine ,Odds Ratio ,Humans ,Genetic Predisposition to Disease ,Allele ,education ,030304 developmental biology ,Genetic association ,0303 health sciences ,education.field_of_study ,Cerebral infarction ,Case-control study ,Odds ratio ,Cerebral Infarction ,medicine.disease ,Intracranial Arteriosclerosis ,3. Good health ,Case-Control Studies ,Cardiology ,Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6 ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Developmental Biology ,Genome-Wide Association Study - Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have not consistently detected replicable genetic risk factors for ischemic stroke, potentially due to etiological heterogeneity of this trait. We performed GWAS of ischemic stroke and a major ischemic stroke subtype (large artery atherosclerosis, LAA) using 1,162 ischemic stroke cases (including 421 LAA cases) and 1,244 population controls from Australia. Evidence for a genetic influence on ischemic stroke risk was detected, but this influence was higher and more significant for the LAA subtype. We identified a new LAA susceptibility locus on chromosome 6p21.1 (rs556621: odds ratio (OR) = 1.62, P = 3.9 × 10-8) and replicated this association in 1,715 LAA cases and 52,695 population controls from 10 independent population cohorts (meta-analysis replication OR = 1.15, P = 3.9 × 10-4; discovery and replication combined OR = 1.21, P = 4.7 × 10-8). This study identifies a genetic risk locus for LAA and shows how analyzing etiological subtypes may better identify genetic risk alleles for ischemic stroke. © 2012 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.
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- 2012