Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Cerebral small vessel disease genomics and its implications across the lifespan

  • Muralidharan Sargurupremraj,
  • Hideaki Suzuki,
  • Xueqiu Jian,
  • Chloé Sarnowski,
  • Tavia E. Evans,
  • Joshua C. Bis,
  • Gudny Eiriksdottir,
  • Saori Sakaue,
  • Natalie Terzikhan,
  • Mohamad Habes,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Nicola J. Armstrong,
  • Edith Hofer,
  • Lisa R. Yanek,
  • Saskia P. Hagenaars,
  • Rajan B. Kumar,
  • Erik B. van den Akker,
  • Rebekah E. McWhirter,
  • Stella Trompet,
  • Aniket Mishra,
  • Yasaman Saba,
  • Claudia L. Satizabal,
  • Gregory Beaudet,
  • Laurent Petit,
  • Ami Tsuchida,
  • Laure Zago,
  • Sabrina Schilling,
  • Sigurdur Sigurdsson,
  • Rebecca F. Gottesman,
  • Cora E. Lewis,
  • Neelum T. Aggarwal,
  • Oscar L. Lopez,
  • Jennifer A. Smith,
  • Maria C. Valdés Hernández,
  • Jeroen van der Grond,
  • Margaret J. Wright,
  • Maria J. Knol,
  • Marcus Dörr,
  • Russell J. Thomson,
  • Constance Bordes,
  • Quentin Le Grand,
  • Marie-Gabrielle Duperron,
  • Albert V. Smith,
  • David S. Knopman,
  • Pamela J. Schreiner,
  • Denis A. Evans,
  • Jerome I. Rotter,
  • Alexa S. Beiser,
  • Susana Muñoz Maniega,
  • Marian Beekman,
  • Julian Trollor,
  • David J. Stott,
  • Meike W. Vernooij,
  • Katharina Wittfeld,
  • Wiro J. Niessen,
  • Aicha Soumaré,
  • Eric Boerwinkle,
  • Stephen Sidney,
  • Stephen T. Turner,
  • Gail Davies,
  • Anbupalam Thalamuthu,
  • Uwe Völker,
  • Mark A. van Buchem,
  • R. Nick Bryan,
  • Josée Dupuis,
  • Mark E. Bastin,
  • David Ames,
  • Alexander Teumer,
  • Philippe Amouyel,
  • John B. Kwok,
  • Robin Bülow,
  • Ian J. Deary,
  • Peter R. Schofield,
  • Henry Brodaty,
  • Jiyang Jiang,
  • Yasuharu Tabara,
  • Kazuya Setoh,
  • Susumu Miyamoto,
  • Kazumichi Yoshida,
  • Manabu Nagata,
  • Yoichiro Kamatani,
  • Fumihiko Matsuda,
  • Bruce M. Psaty,
  • David A. Bennett,
  • Philip L. De Jager,
  • Thomas H. Mosley,
  • Perminder S. Sachdev,
  • Reinhold Schmidt,
  • Helen R. Warren,
  • Evangelos Evangelou,
  • David-Alexandre Trégouët,
  • International Network against Thrombosis (INVENT) Consortium,
  • International Headache Genomics Consortium (IHGC),
  • Mohammad A. Ikram,
  • Wei Wen,
  • Charles DeCarli,
  • Velandai K. Srikanth,
  • J. Wouter Jukema,
  • Eline P. Slagboom,
  • Sharon L. R. Kardia,
  • Yukinori Okada,
  • Bernard Mazoyer,
  • Joanna M. Wardlaw,
  • Paul A. Nyquist,
  • Karen A. Mather,
  • Hans J. Grabe,
  • Helena Schmidt,
  • Cornelia M. Van Duijn,
  • Vilmundur Gudnason,
  • William T. Longstreth,
  • Lenore J. Launer,
  • Mark Lathrop,
  • Sudha Seshadri,
  • Christophe Tzourio,
  • Hieab H. Adams,
  • Paul M. Matthews,
  • Myriam Fornage,
  • Stéphanie Debette

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19111-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are a common brain-imaging feature of cerebral small vessel disease. Here, the authors carry out a GWAS and followup analyses for WMH-volume, implicating several variants with potential for risk stratification and drug targeting.