Clusterin/Apolipoprotein J immunoreactivity is associated with white matter damage in cerebral small vessel diseases.

"Disclosures The co‐authors have no disclosures with regard to this report. The study was not industry sponsored. There are no conflicts of interest."

"J.L. Taylor was funded by a Newcastle University Faculty of Medical Sciences summer studentship. We thank Drs Glyn Nelson, Alison Spilsbury and Trevor Booth for excellent assistance with confocal imaging and image co‐localization analysis. Post‐mortem brain tissue was obtained from the Newcastle brain tissue resource (NBTR). We thank the patients and families for their contributions to this study. Our work was supported by grants from the UK Medical Research Council (MRC, G0500247), Newcastle Centre for Brain Ageing and Vitality (BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC and MRC, LLHW) and Alzheimer's Research (ARUK). The NBTR is funded by a grant from the UK MRC (G0400074) with further support from the Newcastle NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Ageing and Age Related Diseases award to the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and a grant from the Alzheimer's Society and ART as part of the Brains for Dementia Research Project."