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Heritability of fractional anisotropy in human white matter: A comparison of Human Connectome Project and ENIGMA-DTI data

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Kochunov, Peter, Jahanshad, Neda, Marcus, Daniel, Winkler, Anderson, Sprooten, Emma, Nichols, Thomas E., Wright, Susan N., Hong, L. Elliot +45 more·2015·NeuroImage

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The degree to which genetic factors influence brain connectivity is beginning to be understood. Large-scale efforts are underway to map the profile of genetic effects in various brain regions. The NIH-funded Human Connectome Project (HCP) is providing data valuable for analyzing the degree of genetic influence underlying brain connectivity revealed by state-of-the-art neuroimaging methods. We calculated the heritability of the fractional anisotropy (FA) measure derived from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) reconstruction in 481 HCP subjects (194/287 M/F) consisting of 57/60 pairs of mono- and dizygotic twins, and 246 siblings. FA measurements were derived using (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis) ENIGMA DTI protocols and heritability estimates were calculated using the SOLAR-Eclipse imaging genetic analysis package. We compared heritability estimates derived from HCP data to those publicly available through the ENIGMA-DTI consortium, which were pooled together from five-family based studies across the US, Europe, and Australia. FA measurements from the HCP cohort for eleven major white matter tracts were highly heritable (h(2)=0.53-0.90, p<10(-5)), and were significantly correlated with the joint-analytical estimates from the ENIGMA cohort on the tract and voxel-wise levels. The similarity in regional heritability suggests that the additive genetic contribution to white matter microstructure is consistent across populations and imaging acquisition parameters. It also suggests that the overarching genetic influence provides an opportunity to define a common genetic search space for future gene-discovery studies. Uniquely, the measurements of additive genetic contribution performed in this study can be repeated using online genetic analysis tools provided by the HCP ConnectomeDB web application.

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Kochunov, P., Jahanshad, N., Marcus, D., Winkler, A., Sprooten, E., Nichols, T. E., Wright, S. N., Hong, L. E., Patel, B., Behrens, T., Jbabdi, S., Andersson, J., Lenglet, C., Yacoub, E., Moeller, S., Auerbach, E., Ugurbil, K., Sotiropoulos, S. N., Brouwer, R. M., Landman, B., Lemaitre, H., den Braber, A., Zwiers, M. P., Ritchie, S., van Hulzen, K., Almasy, L., Curran, J., deZubicaray, G. I., Duggirala, R., Fox, P., Martin, N. G., McMahon, K. L., Mitchell, B., Olvera, R. L., Peterson, C., Starr, J., Sussmann, J., Wardlaw, J., Wright, M., Boomsma, D. I., Kahn, R., de Geus, E. J. C., Williamson, D. E., Hariri, A., van 't Ent, D., Bastin, M. E., McIntosh, A., Deary, I. J., Hulshoff pol, H. E., Blangero, J., Thompson, P. M., Glahn, D. C., & Van Essen, D. C.
Affiliations
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
  • University of Southern California (US)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • Hartford Hospital (US)
  • University of Warwick (GB)
  • University of Minnesota (US)
  • Utrecht University (NL)
  • Vanderbilt University (US)
  • Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
  • University of Edinburgh (GB)
  • Texas Biomedical Research Institute (US)
  • The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center (US)
  • QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (AU)
  • The University of Queensland (AU)
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
  • Duke University (US)
Corresponding author
Kochunov, Peter
Venue
NeuroImage
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-05
Volume
111
Pages
300-311
ISSN
1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1985450416
Cited by
215
References
63
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FWCI
24.32
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Funders
  • NIH R01 (EB008432, EB008281, EB007813)
  • NIH (087727/Z/08/Z, U54 EB020403)
  • Biotechnology Research Center (P41 EB0 15894)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Keywords
heritability, fractional anisotropy, white matter microstructure, diffusion tensor imaging, monozygotic and dizygotic twins, siblings, white matter tracts, Human Connectome Project, imaging genetics, gene discovery
MeSH terms
Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Nerve Net, Registries, Cohort Studies, Anisotropy, Genetic Phenomena, Young Adult, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Connectome, White Matter

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