NOTCH3 and cerebral small vessel disease: Dominant mutations in human NOTCH3 are the cause of CADASIL, the most common inherited form of cerebral small vessel diseases (cSVDs), characterized pathologically by the abnormal accumulation of granular osmiophilic material (GOM) around SMCs and pericytes of the brain microvasculature and the loss of SMCs in small brain arteries and arterioles (3–5).