We recently reported a family-based genome wide association study (GWAS) for pediatric stroke pointing our attention to two significantly associated genes of the ADAMTS (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs) gene family ADAMTS2 (rs469568, p = 8x10-6) and ADAMTS12 (rs1364044, p = 2.9x10-6). Here, ADAMTS2 is linked to Stroke.