VCAN and Stroke: Additional stroke markers (rs2084898 in TRIM29, rs469568 in ADAMTS2 [51], rs17696736 in SH2B3, rs4792143 in FLJ45455, rs16851055 in SPSB4, rs12646447 in PITX2, rs225132 in ERRFI1, rs161802 in PARK7 [54], rs12425791 in NINJ2 [55], rs2200733 in NR [56], rs556621 in SUPT3H [57], rs173686 in CSPG2 [58], and rs11853426 in ANXA2 [59,60]) were further tested here, but no associations with stroke cases in SCD were found except for the TRIM29 marker (p = 0.02, 0.65, 0.70, 0.81, 0.12, 0.07, 0.91, 0.88, 0.76, 0.08, 0.17, 0.32, and 0.06, respectively).