September 10, 2025International Journal of Stroke

Large-scale genetic study identifies shared genetic regions between cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases

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AKAkhilesh Shailendra KhamkarIndian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal SJS. K. JhaSRI International ABAjay Kumar BakhlaRajendra Institute of Medical Sciences

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Genome-wide analysis reveals shared genetic regions between cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, suggesting common pathways for multiple neurological disorders.

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The study identified 116 shared genetic loci linking cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases.
Pleiotropic analysis resulted in the detection of 770 lead SNPs across different disease pairs with significant genetic correlations.
Genome-wide association studies provided data that revealed new causal genetic loci, including ERGIC1 between ALS and small vessel stroke.
Findings indicate a robust genetic risk score for stroke that is associated with neurodegenerative diseases across diverse ancestry groups.

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Khamkar et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c243f6b210217d647a962b https://doi.org/10.1177/17474930251377513

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Genome-wide analysis reveals shared genetic regions between cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, suggesting common pathways for multiple neurological disorders.

Large-scale genetic study identifies shared genetic regions between cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases

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Large-scale genetic study identifies shared genetic regions between cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases

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