Highlights of the 29th ISGC Workshop in Boston 

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• Genomic Medicine: From Bench to Bedside, and Back Again

• Held between October 12-14.

• Promote cutting-edge, interdisciplinary discussions that will inform and inspire novel approaches to stroke prevention, treatment and recovery.​

2nd of March Pre-Meeting 

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Different members of the Global Alliance presented the updates of their projects at Barak Room or via remote control on 2nd of March 2023.

The schedule for our Pre-Meeting is complete! See below for schedule.​

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Speakers: Israel Fernández-Cadenas, Tara Stanne, Brad Worrall and Jin-Moo Lee, John Cole, Miquel Lledós, Arne Lindgren

Highlights of the 27th ISGC Workshop in Bordeaux

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-Africa is highly diverse genetically, which can help identify new loci related to stroke risk and risk factors

-Sex Specific GWAs identify differences in  lacunar stroke and early onset stroke genetic architectures

-The (dis)connectome of stroke related lesions help the mapping task related brain functions

-Comparison of Imputation performance of different services in African Ancestry populations founds best performance using Sanger Imputation Service

-About 20% of CNVs affect protein coding genes and have the potential to affect stroke risk and outcomes

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Call for Collaborations: CaNVAS, GENISIS, GISCOME

We announce a new Stroke Outcome Paper

Domain-Specific Outcomes for Stroke Clinical Trials: What the Modified Rankin Isn't Ranking. Neurology

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We announce a new Global Alliance Paper

International Stroke Genetics Consortium Recommendations for Studies of Genetics of Stroke Outcome and Recovery. International Journal of Stroke

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The fourth ISGC Virtual Mini-Workshop on: Stroke outcome genetics.

Date: March 30, (Europe/the Americas); March 31, (East Asia/Australia)

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More information can be found here

A list of the ongoing studies from the Global alliance members, can be accessed via the Members Only Area

New funding has been granted

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On October 2019 a grant has been granted to the ISGC Global Alliance in Acute and Long term Outcome Post-Stroke.