Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) are part of an international team that has discovered 61 additional genetic loci associated with stroke and six genes that are potential targets for drug therapy to prevent or treat stroke. The findings, published Sept. 28 in Nature, are based on data from 2.5 million people from five different ancestries, more than 200,000 of whom had a stroke. Members of the GIGASTROKE consortium conducted the research.
New research links dozens more genes with stroke, identifies potential drug targets
Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) are part of an international team that has discovered 61 additional genetic loci associated with stroke and six genes that are potential targets for drug therapy to prevent or treat stroke. The findings, published Sept. 28 in Nature, are based on data from 2.5 million people from five different ancestries, more than 200,000 of whom had a stroke. Members of the GIGASTROKE consortium conducted the research.