A Polygenic Risk Score Based on a Cardioembolic Stroke Multitrait Analysis Improves a Clinical Prediction Model for This Stroke Subtype

Palà E, Bustamante A, Pagola J, Juega J, Francisco-Pascual J, Penalba A et al. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022 Jul 4;9:908053. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.908053. eCollection 2022. PMID: 35859587

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Results: We found and replicated eleven loci associated with CES. Eight were novel loci. Seven of them had been previously associated with AF, namely, CAV1, ESR2, GORAB, IGF1R, NEURL1, WIPF1, and ZEB2. KIAA1755 locus had never been associated with CES/AF, leading its index variant to a missense change (R1045W). The PRS generated has been significantly associated with CES improving discrimination and patient reclassification of a model with age, sex, and hypertension.

J. Cárcel-Márquez has received funding through an AGAUR Contract (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca; FI_DGR 2019, grant number 2020FI_B1 00157) co-financed with Fons Social Europeu (FSE) (https://agaur.gencat.cat). From Instituto de Salud Carlos III: E. Muiño is funded by a Río Hortega Contract (CM18/00198), M. Lledós is funded by a PFIS Contract (Contratos Predoctorales de Formación en Investigación en Salud, FI19/00309), C. Gallego-Fabrega is supported by a Sara Borrell Contract (CD20/00043) and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (ISCIII-FEDER), T. Sobrino (CPII17/00027), and F. Campos (CPII19/00020) are recipients of research contracts from the Miguel Servet Program (https://www.isciii.es). This study has been funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI15/01978, PI17/02089, PI18-01338, and RICORS-ICTUS RD21/0006/0006 (Instituto deSalud Carlos III), by Marató TV3 support of the Epigenesis study (https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/marato/), by the Fundació  Docència i Recerca FMT grant for the Epigenesis project(https://www.mutuaterrassa.com), by Eranet-Neuron of the biostroke project (AC19/00106) (https://www.neuron-eranet. eu), by Boehringer Ingelheim of the SEDMAN Study (https:// www.boehringer-ingelheim.it), and GCAT Cession Research Project PI-2018-01 (http://www.gcatbiobank.org). GCAT was funded by Acción de Dinamización del ISCIII-MINECO and the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat of Catalunya (ADE 10/00026); and have additional suport by the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) (2017-SGR 529).