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Genomewide association study identifies no major founder variant in Caucasian moyamoya disease

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This work was supported mainly by grants from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (Kiban Kenkyu A: 22249020) and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (H23-Nanji-Ippan-019, chaired by Dr Nobuo Hashimoto) and partially by a grant from Creative Scientific Research (19G50314). We thank all individuals for their participation in this study. We also thank Dr David Školoudík (Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Ostrava, Czech Republic); Dr Martin Kucharík (Department of Neurology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General Teaching Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic); Dr Aleš Tomek (Department of Neurology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic); Dr Martin Kovář (Department of Neurology, Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic); Dr Jan Fiksa (Department of Neurology, Military University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic); Dr Michael J. Schmeisser (Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany); Dr Vera Alexandra Neves dos Santos (Department of Pediatry, Hospital de Faro, Faro, Portugal); Dr Vera Peters (Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany); Prof. Daniela Berg and Ms Claudia Schulte (both Department of Neurology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany) and Prof. Martin Schöning (Department of Pediatrics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany) for their patients recruitment.

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  1. Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    WANYANG LIU, S. T. M. L. D. SENEVIRATHNA, TOSHIAKI Hitomi, HATASU KOBAYASHI & AKIO KOIZUMI

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, D-72076, Germany

    CONSTANTIN RODER & BORIS KRISCHEK

  3. Stroke Comprehensive Center, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University and University Hospital, Olomouc, 77900, Czech Republic

    ROMAN HERZIG

  4. Department of Neurology, Alfried-Krupp-von Bohlen und Halbach Hospital, Essen, 45117, Germany

    MARKUS KRAEMER

  5. Department of Radiology, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Edegem, BE-2000, Belgium

    MAURITS H. J. VOORMOLEN

  6. Department of Child Neurology, University Hospital, Brno, 62500, Czech Republic

    PAVLÍNA CAHOVÁ

  7. Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, People’s Republic of China

    WANYANG LIU

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[Liu W., Senevirathna S. T. M. L. D., Hitomi T., Kobayashi H., Roder C., Herzig R., Kraemer M., Voormolen M. H. J., Cahová P., Krischek B. and Koizumi A. 2013 Genomewide association study identifies no major founder variant in Caucasian moyamoya disease. J. Genet. 92, xx–xx]

Wanyang Liu and S. T. M. L. D. Senevirathna contributed equally to this work.

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LIU, W., SENEVIRATHNA, S.T.M.L.D., Hitomi, T. et al. Genomewide association study identifies no major founder variant in Caucasian moyamoya disease. J Genet 92, 605–609 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-013-0304-5

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