ISGC

The International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC) was created in April 2007 by a group of 16 investigators from Europe and North America interested in stroke genetics research. Since then, the ISGC has held one international workshop every six months, hosted by ISGC members from around the world, and has become an international, multidisciplinary network of more than 200 stroke genetics investigators, representing over 20 countries in 5 continents.
 

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Workshops

The inaugural ISGC Virtual Mini-Workshop which will take place on June 16, 2020 from 9-10:30 PM (GMT). This will be the first of a series of...

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The workshop has been cancelled and it will be reschedule at a future date. Date will be announced via email.

The next ISGC Workshop will...

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The ISGC Workshop to be held in Bordeaux, France and hosted by Professor Stephanie Debette has been rescheduled for Spring 2021.

Working Groups

Among the goals of this committee are to increase efficiency of analyses and create an expert community to aid in solving problems faced by less experienced ISGC members.

Our mission is to decipher genetic determinants, both single gene and complex inheritance of early-onset stroke and cerebrovascular disease and search for the pathways through which they alter stroke susceptibility. We expect that this effort will lead to better treatments for Mendelian forms of stroke and will identify novel biological mechanisms that are also relevant to older-onset stroke.

This group undertakes harmonization of image characterization/measurement approaches across ISGC centers and contributes images to the ISGC-NINDS stroke imaging repository at MGH.

Formed in the fall of 2012, this group is responsible for harmonizing stroke outcome measures across member sites.

This working group is devoted to expanding ISGC participation to underrepresented regions and populations.

The goal of this group is uniting researchers whose goal is to use genetic and genomic tools to improve understanding of the pathophysiologic basis of cerebrovascular disease.

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Members of the day

Dr Robynne Braun, MD, PhD

Dr. Braun is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland with a PhD in Kinesiology and...
Dr Juan Jose Martin

Dr Martin is a Clinical Neurologist and coordinator of the Stroke Unit at Sanatario Allende. He...
Professor James Meschia, MD

Dr Meschia is a vascular neurologist and the Principal Investigator of the 70 centre Siblings...
Dr Rainer Malik, PhD

Dr Malik is an active member of the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research in Munich. He co-...
Dr Braxton D. Mitchell, MPH, PhD

Dr. Mitchell is Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology & Public Health at the University...

New Papers

Genome-wide association meta-analysis of functional outcome after ischemic stroke.

Söderholm M, Pedersen A, Lorentzen E, Stanne TM, Bevan S, Olsson M, Cole JW, Fernandez-Cadenas I, Hankey GJ, Jimenez-Conde J, Jood K, Lee JM, Lemmens R, Levi C, Mitchell BD, Norrving B, Rannikmäe K, Rost NS, Rosand J, Rothwell PM, Scott R, Strbian D, Sturm JW, Sudlow C, Traylor M, Thijs V, Tatlisumak T, Woo D, Worrall BB, Maguire JM, Lindgren A, Jern C; International Stroke Genetics Consortium, the NINDS-SiGN Consortium, and the Genetics of Ischaemic Stroke Functional Outcome (GISCOME) Network.
Neurology. 2019 Mar 19;92(12):e1271-e1283. [ PUBMED ]

Genetic Imbalance Is Associated With Functional Outcome After Ischemic Stroke.

Pfeiffer D, Chen B, Schlicht K, Ginsbach P, Abboud S, Bersano A, Bevan S, Brandt T, Caso V, Debette S, Erhart P, Freitag-Wolf S, Giacalone G, Grau AJ, Hayani E, Jern C, Jiménez-Conde J, Kloss M, Krawczak M, Lee JM, Lemmens R, Leys D, Lichy C, Maguire JM, Martin JJ, Metso AJ, Metso TM, Mitchell BD, Pezzini A, Rosand J, Rost NS, Stenman M, Tatlisumak T, Thijs V, Touzé E, Traenka C, Werner I, Woo D, Del Zotto E, Engelter ST, Kittner SJ, Cole JW, Grond-Ginsbach C, Lyrer PA, Lindgren; CADISP; GISCOME; SiGN studies; and ISGC.
Stroke. 2019 Feb;50(2):298-304. [ PUBMED ]

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 3 novel loci associated with stroke.

Malik R, Rannikmäe K, Traylor M, Georgakis MK, Sargurupremraj M, Markus HS, Hopewell JC, Debette S, Sudlow CLM, Dichgans M; MEGASTROKE consortium and the International Stroke Genetics Consortium.
Ann Neurol. 2018 Nov 1. doi: 10.1002/ana.25369. [ PUBMED ]

Genetic risk, incident stroke, and the benefits of adhering to a healthy lifestyle: cohort study of 306 473 UK Biobank participants.

Rutten-Jacobs LC, Larsson SC, Malik R, Rannikmäe K; MEGASTROKE consortium; International Stroke Genetics Consortium, Sudlow CL, Dichgans M, Markus HS, Traylor M.
BMJ. 2018 Oct 24;363:k4168. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4168. [ PUBMED ]

Atrial Fibrillation Genetic Risk and Ischemic Stroke Mechanisms.

Lubitz SA, Parsons OE, Anderson CD, Benjamin EJ, Malik R, Weng LC, Dichgans M, Sudlow CL, Rothwell PM, Rosand J, Ellinor PT, Markus HS, Traylor M; WTCCC2, International Stroke Genetics Consortium, and AFGen Consortia.
Stroke. 2017 Jun;48(6):1451-1456 [ PUBMED ]