White Matter Lesion Progression: Genome-Wide Search for Genetic Influences

Edith Hofer¹, Margherita Cavalieri¹, Joshua C Bis¹+58

• ¹From the Department of Neurology (E.H., M.C., H.S., R.S.) and Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria; Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine (J.C.B., B.M.P.), Radiology (D.K.S.), and Neurology and Epidemiology (W.T.L.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, Sacramento (C.D.C., O.M.); Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine (M.F.) and Human Genetics Center (M.F.), University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston; Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland (S.S., V.G., A.S.); Stroke and Ageing Research Group, Department of Medicine, Southern Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (V.S., M.C., C.M., T.P., R.B.); Departments of Cardiology (S.T., J.W.J.), Gerontology and Geriatrics (S.T., A.J.M.C., R.G.J.W.), Molecular Epidemiology (P.E.S.), and Radiology (M.B.), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Departments of Epidemiology (B.F.J.V., H.H.H.A., C.M.D., A.H., M.W.V., M.A.I.), Radiology (B.F.J.V., H.H.H.A., M.W.V., M.A.I.), and Medical Informatics (W.J.N.), Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; INSERM U897 (C.W., G.C., C.D., S.S., S.D.), CNRS-CEA UMR5296 (B.M.), and INSERM U708 (C.T.), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France; Department of Statistical Genetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany (C.W.); Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, MA (Q.Y., A.B., J.W.); INSERM U744, Pasteur Institute, Lille, France (P.A.); Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland (B.M.B.); INSERM U1161 and Lariboisière Hospital, Paris 7 University, Paris, France (G.C., S.S., S.D.); Centre for Medical Systems Biology, Leiden, The Netherlands (C.M.D.); Robertson Center for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom (I.F