NIH R01 · 2024
Ischemic stroke is the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S. and a major cause of disability. The etiology of stroke is multifactorial and poorly understood. Genetics is a potentially powerful tool for better understanding disease etiology as it can highlight biological mechanisms underlying disease and point the way to improved prevention, treatment, and outcome. Large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of ischemic stroke (IS) populations have been successful at identifying stroke-risk-associated loci with small effect sizes, however, the role of copy number variation (CNV) variation in stroke susceptibility has yet to be explored, and is the premise of our proposal. Studying CNV has…
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