Proceedings of the 19th and 20th International Stroke Genetics Consortium Workshops

Abstract

The 19th and 20th Workshops of the International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC) were held on April 28–29 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by Christopher Anderson and Steven Lubitz, and on November 3–4 in Milan, Italy, hosted by Giorgio Boncoraglio. These Workshops are a semiannual tradition of the ISGC, dating back to the founding meeting of the Consortium in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April 2007. The ISGC is a worldwide collaboration of stroke physicians and scientists who have agreed to pool resources and expertise in an effort to unravel the genetic basis of stroke ([http://www.strokegenetics.org][1]). As such, members pursue their own research as well as come together under the ISGC banner to conduct larger, collaborative studies. Herein, we present the Proceedings and official published abstracts of the 19th and 20th Workshops of the ISGC. Where topics were presented twice in one year, the latter abstract was included. Steering Committee: Daniel Woo, MD; Scientific Committee: Christopher D. Anderson, MD, MMSc; Outreach Committee: Jennifer Majersik, MD; Analysis Committee: Rainer Malik, PhD; Imaging Committee: Natalia Rost, MD, MSc; Translational Research Committee: Christopher D. Anderson, MD, MMSc. [1]: http://www.strokegenetics.org/