Failure to Validate Association between 12p13 Variants and Ischemic Stroke

Abstract
Recently published data from a meta-analysis of genomewide association studies showed that two common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) near the NINJ2 and WNK1 genes on chromosome 12p13 were associated with ischemic and, in particular, atherothrombotic strokes.1 To validate these results, we conducted a meta-analysis in a combined sample of 8637 cases and 8733 controls of European ancestry, as well as one population-based genomewide cohort study of 278 ischemic strokes among 22,054 participants.