ArticleNature genetics2015
Common variation in PHACTR1 is associated with susceptibility to cervical artery dissection.
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- Migraine and the risk of cervical artery dissection: A systematic review and meta-analysis.European stroke journal · 2023Pooled it
- Twenty-Five Novel Loci for Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: A Genome-Wide Association Study in >45 000 Individuals and Meta-Analysis of >100 000 Individuals.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2022Pooled it
- Genetic investigation of fibromuscular dysplasia identifies risk loci and shared genetics with common cardiovascular diseases.Nature communications · 2021Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of 375,000 individuals identifies 38 susceptibility loci for migraine.Nature genetics · 2016Pooled it
- Identification of additional risk loci for stroke and small vessel disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies.The Lancet. Neurology · 2016Pooled it
- TGFBR2 mutation and MTHFR-C677T polymorphism in a Mexican mestizo population with cervico-cerebral artery dissection.Journal of neurology · 2016Pooled it
- Low-frequency and common genetic variation in ischemic stroke: The METASTROKE collaboration.Neurology · 2016Pooled it
- Susceptibility to Childhood Pneumonia: A Genome-Wide Analysis.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2017Trial
- Dissecting the shared genetic architecture between migraine subtypes and cardiovascular diseases: a multi-layered genomic analysis.The journal of headache and pain · 2026Article
- Multi-trait and Gene-Based Analyses Identify Genetic Variants Associated with Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Systemic Arterial Stiffness in Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome: A Prospective Case-Control Study.European journal of neurology · 2026Observational
- Multi-omic analysis of human PHACTR1 signaling networks.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Unveiling migraine subtype heterogeneity and risk loci: integrated genome-wide association study and single-cell transcriptomics discovery.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Coronary Artery Disease Risk Variant rs6903956 Links to Endothelial Dysfunction viabioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Headaches attributed to cranial and cervical artery dissections.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Review
- Familial Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome: Insights From Two Families.Case reports in neurological medicine · 2025Article
- Beyond vascular recanalization: precision medicine in cervical artery dissection guided by multiple mechanisms and multimodal imaging for brain functional recovery.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Review
- Carotid artery dissection recanalization: imaging modalities, influencing factors, and therapeutic perspectives.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Understanding Headaches Attributed to Cranial and/or Cervical Vascular Disorders: Insights and Challenges for Neurologists.Pain and therapy · 2024Review
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Abstract
Cervical artery dissection (CeAD), a mural hematoma in a carotid or vertebral artery, is a major cause of ischemic stroke in young adults although relatively uncommon in the general population (incidence of 2.6/100,000 per year). Minor cervical traumas, infection, migraine and hypertension are putative risk factors, and inverse associations with obesity and hypercholesterolemia are described. No confirmed genetic susceptibility factors have been identified using candidate gene approaches. We performed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in 1,393 CeAD cases and 14,416 controls. The rs9349379[G] allele (PHACTR1) was associated with lower CeAD risk (odds ratio (OR) = 0.75, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.69-0.82; P = 4.46 × 10(-10)), with confirmation in independent follow-up samples (659 CeAD cases and 2,648 controls; P = 3.91 × 10(-3); combined P = 1.00 × 10(-11)). The rs9349379[G] allele was previously shown to be associated with lower risk of migraine and increased risk of myocardial infarction. Deciphering the mechanisms underlying this pleiotropy might provide important information on the biological underpinnings of these disabling conditions.
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