COL4A2 is associated with lacunar ischemic stroke and deep ICH: Meta-analyses among 21,500 cases and 40,600 controls

Kristiina Rannikmäe¹, Vhinoth Sivakumaran¹, Henry Millar¹+26

• ¹From the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences (K.R., C.L.M.S.), College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine (V.S., H.M.), and Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine (C.L.M.S.), University of Edinburgh, UK; Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (R.M., M.D.), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; Center for Human Genetic Research (C.D.A., F.R., J.R.) and J. Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center (C.D.A., F.R., N.S.R., J.R.) and Division of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology (C.D.A., F.R., J.R.), Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Program in Medical and Population Genetics (C.D.A., F.R., J.R.), Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA; Population Health Research Institute (M.C., M.O., G.P.), McMaster University, Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine (T.D., B.D.M.), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore; Division of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology (G.J.F.), Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Stroke Pharmacogenomics and Genetics (I.F.-C.), Fundació Docència i Recerca Mutua Terrassa, Mutua de Terrassa Hospital; Neurovascular Research Unit (J.J.-C.), Department of Neurology, and Program in Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disorders (J.J.-C.), Institut Municipal d'Investigacio´Medica-Hospital del Mar, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Department of Clinical Sciences Lund (A.L.), Neurology, Lund University; Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine (A.L., M.S.), Neurology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; Neurovascular Research Laboratory and Neurovascular Unit (J.M.), Institut de Recerca, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; HRB Clinical Research Facility (M.O.), NUI Galway, and University Hospital Galway, Ireland; Department of Neurology (A.S.), Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland; Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Group (M.S.), Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden; Department of Clinical Neurosciences (M.T., H.S.M.), University of Cambridge, UK; Department of Neurology (S.L.P.), Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands; Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health (S.S.); Framingham Heart Study (S.S.), Framingham, MA; Departments of Neurology and Public Health Sciences (B.B.W.), University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Department of Neurology (D.W.), University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH; Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center (B.D.M.), Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, MD; and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M.D.), Germany.