PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Traylor, Matthew
AU  - Anderson, Christopher D.
AU  - Hurford, Robert
AU  - Bevan, Steve
AU  - Markus, Hugh S.
TI  - Oxidative phosphorylation and lacunar stroke
AID  - 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002260
DP  - 2016 Jan 12
TA  - Neurology
PG  - 141--145
VI  - 86
IP  - 2
4099  - http://n.neurology.org/content/86/2/141.short
4100  - http://n.neurology.org/content/86/2/141.full
SO  - Neurology2016 Jan 12; 86
AB  - Objective: We investigated whether oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) abnormalities were associated with lacunar stroke, hypothesizing that these would be more strongly associated in patients with multiple lacunar infarcts and leukoaraiosis (LA).Methods: In 1,012 MRI-confirmed lacunar stroke cases and 964 age-matched controls recruited from general practice surgeries, we investigated associations between common genetic variants within the OXPHOS pathway and lacunar stroke using a permutation-based enrichment approach. Cases were phenotyped using MRI into those with multiple infarcts or LA (MLI/LA) and those with isolated lacunar infarcts (ILI) based on the number of subcortical infarcts and degree of LA, using the Fazekas grading. Using gene-level association statistics, we tested for enrichment of genes in the OXPHOS pathway with all lacunar stroke and the 2 subtypes.Results: There was a specific association with strong evidence of enrichment in the top 1% of genes in the MLI/LA (subtype p = 0.0017) but not in the ILI subtype (p = 1). Genes in the top percentile for the all lacunar stroke analysis were not significantly enriched (p = 0.07).Conclusions: Our results implicate the OXPHOS pathway in the pathogenesis of lacunar stroke, and show the association is specific to patients with the MLI/LA subtype. They show that MRI-based subtyping of lacunar stroke can provide insights into disease pathophysiology, and imply that different radiologic subtypes of lacunar stroke subtypes have distinct underlying pathophysiologic processes.GSEA=gene-set enrichment analysis algorithm; ILI=isolated lacunar infarct; LA=leukoaraiosis; LD=linkage disequilibrium; MELAS=mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes; MLI=multiple lacunar infarcts; NO=nitric oxide; OXPHOS=oxidative phosphorylation; SNP=single nucleotide polymorphism