NINJ2 and Stroke: Recently, intergenic single-nucleotide polymorphisms (rs11833579 or rs12425791 SNP) on chromosome 12p13 and within 11 kb of the gene NINJ2 that encodes ninjurin2, an adhesion molecule expressed in glia and shows increased expression after nerve injury [3,4], were reported to be associated with total, ischemic, and atherothrombotic stroke in white persons [5].