| Literature DB >> 22941190 |
Elizabeth G Holliday1, Jane M Maguire, Tiffany-Jane Evans, Simon A Koblar, Jim Jannes, Jonathan W Sturm, Graeme J Hankey, Ross Baker, Jonathan Golledge, Mark W Parsons, Rainer Malik, Mark McEvoy, Erik Biros, Martin D Lewis, Lisa F Lincz, Roseanne Peel, Christopher Oldmeadow, Wayne Smith, Pablo Moscato, Simona Barlera, Steve Bevan, Joshua C Bis, Eric Boerwinkle, Giorgio B Boncoraglio, Thomas G Brott, Robert D Brown, Yu-Ching Cheng, John W Cole, Ioana Cotlarciuc, William J Devan, Myriam Fornage, Karen L Furie, Sólveig Grétarsdóttir, Andreas Gschwendtner, M Arfan Ikram, W T Longstreth, James F Meschia, Braxton D Mitchell, Thomas H Mosley, Michael A Nalls, Eugenio A Parati, Bruce M Psaty, Pankaj Sharma, Kari Stefansson, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Matthew Traylor, Benjamin F J Verhaaren, Kerri L Wiggins, Bradford B Worrall, Cathie Sudlow, Peter M Rothwell, Martin Farrall, Martin Dichgans, Jonathan Rosand, Hugh S Markus, Rodney J Scott, Christopher Levi, John Attia.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22941190 PMCID: PMC3651583 DOI: 10.1038/ng.2397
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Genet ISSN: 1061-4036 Impact factor: 38.330