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Cara L Carty1, Keith L Keene2, Yu-Ching Cheng2

  • 1Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (C.L.C., C.K., A.R.); Center for Health Disparities, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (K.L.K.); Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, MD (Y.-C.C., S.J.K.); University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore (Y.-C.C., S.J.K., B.D.M.); Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL (J.F.M.); Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (W.-M.C., S.S.R., M.M.S., B.B.W.); National Institute of Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD (M.N., S.T., A.B.Z., M.K.E.); University of Washington, Seattle (J.C.B., W.T.L., B.M.P., A.R.); Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (C.D.L., Y.L.); Division of Cerebrovascular Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (R.G.); Department of Neurology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (T.H.M.); Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson (E.S.); Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Cincinnati, OH (D.W.); Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco (K.Y.); Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (Synergy), Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität; Munich, Germany (M.D., R.M.); Group Health Research Unit, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA (B.M.P.); and Center for Human Genetics, University of Texas, Houston (M.F.). ccarty@cnmc.org.

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African Americansgenetic association studiesgenome-wide association studymeta-analysisstroke

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