Multilocus genetic risk score associates with ischemic stroke in case-control and prospective cohort studies

Rainer Malik¹, Steve Bevan, Michael A Nalls+24

• ¹From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany (R.M., M.D.); Stroke and Dementia Research Centre, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom (S.B., H.S.M.); Laboratory of Neurogenetics (M.A.N.) and Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences (L.J.L.), National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine and Public Health (E.G.H.) and Center for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health Research (C.L.), University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia; Center for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery and Information-Based Medicine, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton, NSW, Australia (E.G.H.); Department of Neurology, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (W.J.D., J.R.); Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (Y.-C.C., B.D.M.); Department of Veterans Affairs and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC), Baltimore, MD (Y.-C.C., B.D.M.); Department of Epidemiology (C.A.I.-V., B.F.J.V., M.A.I., C.M.v.D.), Department of Neurology (C.A.I.-V., M.A.I.), and Department of Radiology (B.F.J.V., M.A.I.), Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Cardiovascular Health Research Unit (J.C.B., B.M.P.), Department of Medicine (J.C.B., B.M.P.), Department of Epidemiology (B.M.P.), and Department of Health Services (B.M.P.), University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Institute for Molecular Medicine (A.Y.J., M.F.) and Human Genetics Center (M.F.), University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA (A.L.d.S., S.S.); Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA (A.L.d.S.); The National Heart, Lung and