About the Authors

John W. Cole

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jcole@som.umaryland.edu

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System; University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Huichun Xu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Kathleen Ryan

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Thomas Jaworek

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Nicole Dueker

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Patrick McArdle

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Brady Gaynor

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Yu-Ching Cheng

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Food and Drug Administration, White Oak, MD, United States of America

Jeffrey O'Connell

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Steve Bevan

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Rainer Malik

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

Naveed Uddin Ahmed

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Philippe Amouyel

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Inserm, Lille, France

Sheraz Anjum

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan

Joshua C. Bis

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

David Crosslin

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

John Danesh

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stefan T. Engelter

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Myriam Fornage

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Philippe Frossard

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan

Christian Gieger

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, München, Germany

Anne-Katrin Giese

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Caspar Grond-Ginsbach

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Weang Kee Ho

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Elizabeth Holliday

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

Jemma Hopewell

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

M. Hussain

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan

W. Iqbal

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lahore General Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan

S. Jabeen

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan

Jim Jannes

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Ayeesha Kamal

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Yoichiro Kamatani

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan

Sandip Kanse

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Oslo, Norway

Manja Kloss

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Mark Lathrop

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation McGill University and Québec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Canada

Didier Leys

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Lille; INSERM, Lille, France

Arne Lindgren

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lund University, Lund, Sweden

W. T. Longstreth Jr

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Khalid Mahmood

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dow University of Health Sciences, Civil Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Christa Meisinger

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central Hospital of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Tiina M. Metso

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Thomas Mosley Jr.

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States of America

Martina Müller-Nurasyid

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Bo Norrving

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Eugenio Parati

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico, Milan, Italy

Annette Peters

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany

Alessandro Pezzini

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Universita Degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy

I. Quereshi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation King Edward Medical University and Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan

Asif Rasheed

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan

A. Rauf

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan

T. Salam

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lahore General Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan

Jess Shen

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lunenfeld Tenubaum Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Agnieszka Słowik

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Tara Stanne

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine, Gothenburg, Sweden

Konstantin Strauch

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Turgut Tatlisumak

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Vincent N. Thijs

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Steffen Tiedt

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany

Matthew Traylor

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Melanie Waldenberger

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, München, Germany

Matthew Walters

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

Wei Zhao

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Giorgio Boncoraglio

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico, Milan, Italy

Stéphanie Debette

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bordeaux University, Bordeaux, France

Christina Jern

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine, Gothenburg, Sweden

Christopher Levi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia

Hugh Markus

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

James Meschia

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, United States of America

Arndt Rolfs

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Rostock, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Peter Rothwell

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Danish Saleheen

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Sudha Seshadri

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America

Pankaj Sharma

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Cathie Sudlow

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Bradford Worrall

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

METASTROKE Consortium of the ISGC

Membership of the METASTROKE Consortium of the ISGC and the WTCCC-2 Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

WTCCC-2 Consortium

Membership of the METASTROKE Consortium of the ISGC and the WTCCC-2 Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

O. Colin Stine

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Steven J. Kittner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System; University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Braxton D. Mitchell

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

Drs. Cole, Mitchell, Kittner, Longstreth, and Worrall are supported by research grants from National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr Cole is supported by a research grants from the American Heart Association and Bayer Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Worrall is Deputy Editor for AAN/Neurology. Dr. Boncoraglio is supported by a research grant from the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta. Dr. Metso is supported by grants from the Finnish Medical Foundation, the Orion Farmos Research Foundation, the Maud Kuistila Memorial Foundation, and the Emil Aaltonen Foundation. Dr. Danesh serves on advisory boards for Novartis, Merck Sharp & Dohme UK, Sanofi, the Medical Research Council, and Wellcome Trust and is a consultant for Takeda. These do not alter the authors adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors report no disclosures.