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Jain PR, Yates M, de Celis CR, Drineas P, Jahanshad N, Thompson P, Paschou P. Multiomic approach and Mendelian randomization analysis identify causal associations between blood biomarkers and subcortical brain structure volumes. Neuroimage 2023; 284:120466. [PMID: 37995919 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 10/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 11/25/2023] Open
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Alterations in subcortical brain structure volumes have been found to be associated with several neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. At the same time, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous common variants associated with brain structure. In this study, we integrate these findings, aiming to identify proteins, metabolites, or microbes that have a putative causal association with subcortical brain structure volumes via a two-sample Mendelian randomization approach. This method uses genetic variants as instrument variables to identify potentially causal associations between an exposure and an outcome. The exposure data that we analyzed comprised genetic associations for 2994 plasma proteins, 237 metabolites, and 103 microbial genera. The outcome data included GWAS data for seven subcortical brain structure volumes including accumbens, amygdala, caudate, hippocampus, pallidum, putamen, and thalamus. Eleven proteins and six metabolites were found to have a significant association with subcortical structure volumes, with nine proteins and five metabolites replicated using independent exposure data. We found causal associations between accumbens volume and plasma protease c1 inhibitor as well as strong association between putamen volume and Agouti signaling protein. Among metabolites, urate had the strongest association with thalamic volume. No significant associations were detected between the microbial genera and subcortical brain structure volumes. We also observed significant enrichment for biological processes such as proteolysis, regulation of the endoplasmic reticulum apoptotic signaling pathway, and negative regulation of DNA binding. Our findings provide insights to the mechanisms through which brain volumes may be affected in the pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders and point to potential treatment targets for disorders that are associated with subcortical brain structure volumes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Pritesh R Jain
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, United States
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- Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of South California, United States
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- Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of South California, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States.
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Seitz-Holland J, Nägele FL, Kubicki M, Pasternak O, Cho KIK, Hough M, Mulert C, Shenton ME, Crow TJ, James ACD, Lyall AE. Shared and distinct white matter abnormalities in adolescent-onset schizophrenia and adolescent-onset psychotic bipolar disorder. Psychol Med 2023; 53:4707-4719. [PMID: 35796024 PMCID: PMC11119277 DOI: 10.1017/s003329172200160x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND While adolescent-onset schizophrenia (ADO-SCZ) and adolescent-onset bipolar disorder with psychosis (psychotic ADO-BPD) present a more severe clinical course than their adult forms, their pathophysiology is poorly understood. Here, we study potentially state- and trait-related white matter diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) abnormalities along the adolescent-onset psychosis continuum to address this need. METHODS Forty-eight individuals with ADO-SCZ (20 female/28 male), 15 individuals with psychotic ADO-BPD (7 female/8 male), and 35 healthy controls (HCs, 18 female/17 male) underwent dMRI and clinical assessments. Maps of extracellular free-water (FW) and fractional anisotropy of cellular tissue (FAT) were compared between individuals with psychosis and HCs using tract-based spatial statistics and FSL's Randomise. FAT and FW values were extracted, averaged across all voxels that demonstrated group differences, and then utilized to test for the influence of age, medication, age of onset, duration of illness, symptom severity, and intelligence. RESULTS Individuals with adolescent-onset psychosis exhibited pronounced FW and FAT abnormalities compared to HCs. FAT reductions were spatially more widespread in ADO-SCZ. FW increases, however, were only present in psychotic ADO-BPD. In HCs, but not in individuals with adolescent-onset psychosis, FAT was positively related to age. CONCLUSIONS We observe evidence for cellular (FAT) and extracellular (FW) white matter abnormalities in adolescent-onset psychosis. Although cellular white matter abnormalities were more prominent in ADO-SCZ, such alterations may reflect a shared trait, i.e. neurodevelopmental pathology, present across the psychosis spectrum. Extracellular abnormalities were evident in psychotic ADO-BPD, potentially indicating a more dynamic, state-dependent brain reaction to psychosis.
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- Johanna Seitz-Holland
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Branch, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- SANE POWIC, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Highfield Unit, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Branch, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Centre for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- SANE POWIC, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- SANE POWIC, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Highfield Unit, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Le H, Dimitrakopoulou K, Patel H, Curtis C, Cordero-Grande L, Edwards AD, Hajnal J, Tournier JD, Deprez M, Cullen H. Effect of schizophrenia common variants on infant brain volumes: cross-sectional study in 207 term neonates in developing Human Connectome Project. Transl Psychiatry 2023; 13:121. [PMID: 37037832 PMCID: PMC10085987 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-023-02413-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2022] [Revised: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 04/12/2023] Open
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Increasing lines of evidence suggest deviations from the normal early developmental trajectory could give rise to the onset of schizophrenia during adolescence and young adulthood, but few studies have investigated brain imaging changes associated with schizophrenia common variants in neonates. This study compared the brain volumes of both grey and white matter regions with schizophrenia polygenic risk scores (PRS) for 207 healthy term-born infants of European ancestry. Linear regression was used to estimate the relationship between PRS and brain volumes, with gestational age at birth, postmenstrual age at scan, ancestral principal components, sex and intracranial volumes as covariates. The schizophrenia PRS were negatively associated with the grey (β = -0.08, p = 4.2 × 10-3) and white (β = -0.13, p = 9.4 × 10-3) matter superior temporal gyrus volumes, white frontal lobe volume (β = -0.09, p = 1.5 × 10-3) and the total white matter volume (β = -0.062, p = 1.66 × 10-2). This result also remained robust when incorporating individuals of Asian ancestry. Explorative functional analysis of the schizophrenia risk variants associated with the right frontal lobe white matter volume found enrichment in neurodevelopmental pathways. This preliminary result suggests possible involvement of schizophrenia risk genes in early brain growth, and potential early life structural alterations long before the average age of onset of the disease.
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- Hai Le
- Centre for the Developing Brain, Perinatal Imaging and Health Department, King's College London, London, UK.
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- Translational Bioinformatics Platform, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, UK
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- NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, King's College London, London, UK
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- NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for the Developing Brain, Perinatal Imaging and Health Department, King's College London, London, UK
- Biomedical Image Technologies, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & CIBER-BBN, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for the Developing Brain, Perinatal Imaging and Health Department, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for the Developing Brain, Perinatal Imaging and Health Department, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for the Developing Brain, Perinatal Imaging and Health Department, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for the Developing Brain, Perinatal Imaging and Health Department, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for the Developing Brain, Perinatal Imaging and Health Department, King's College London, London, UK
- Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, UK
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Jain P, Yates M, de Celis CR, Drineas P, Jahanshad N, Thompson P, Paschou P. Multiomic approach and Mendelian randomization analysis identify causal associations between blood biomarkers and subcortical brain structure volumes. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2023:2023.03.30.23287968. [PMID: 37066330 PMCID: PMC10104218 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.30.23287968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
Abstract
Alterations in subcortical brain structure volumes have been found to be associated with several neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. At the same time, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous common variants associated with brain structure. In this study, we integrate these findings, aiming to identify proteins, metabolites, or microbes that have a putative causal association with subcortical brain structure volumes via a two-sample Mendelian randomization approach. This method uses genetic variants as instrument variables to identify potentially causal associations between an exposure and an outcome. The exposure data that we analyzed comprised genetic associations for 2,994 plasma proteins, 237 metabolites, and 103 microbial genera. The outcome data included GWAS data for seven subcortical brain structure volumes including accumbens, amygdala, caudate, hippocampus, pallidum, putamen, and thalamus. Eleven proteins and six metabolites were found to have a significant association with subcortical structure volumes. We found causal associations between amygdala volume and granzyme A as well as association between accumbens volume and plasma protease c1 inhibitor. Among metabolites, urate had the strongest association with thalamic volume. No significant associations were detected between the microbial genera and subcortical brain structure volumes. We also observed significant enrichment for biological processes such as proteolysis, regulation of the endoplasmic reticulum apoptotic signaling pathway, and negative regulation of DNA binding. Our findings provide insights to the mechanisms through which brain volumes may be affected in the pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders and point to potential treatment targets for disorders that are associated with subcortical brain structure volumes.
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- Pritesh Jain
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
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- Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of South California
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- Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of South California
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Vouga Ribeiro N, Tavares V, Bramon E, Toulopoulou T, Valli I, Shergill S, Murray R, Prata D. Effects of psychosis-associated genetic markers on brain volumetry: a systematic review of replicated findings and an independent validation. Psychol Med 2022; 52:1-16. [PMID: 36168994 PMCID: PMC9811278 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291722002896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Revised: 08/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Given psychotic illnesses' high heritability and associations with brain structure, numerous neuroimaging-genetics findings have been reported in the last two decades. However, few findings have been replicated. In the present independent sample we aimed to replicate any psychosis-implicated SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms), which had previously shown at least two main effects on brain volume. METHODS A systematic review for SNPs showing a replicated effect on brain volume yielded 25 studies implicating seven SNPs in five genes. Their effect was then tested in 113 subjects with either schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, 'at risk mental state' or healthy state, for whole-brain and region-of-interest (ROI) associations with grey and white matter volume changes, using voxel-based morphometry. RESULTS We found FWER-corrected (Family-wise error rate) (i.e. statistically significant) associations of: (1) CACNA1C-rs769087-A with larger bilateral hippocampus and thalamus white matter, across the whole brain; and (2) CACNA1C-rs769087-A with larger superior frontal gyrus, as ROI. Higher replication concordance with existing literature was found, in decreasing order, for: (1) CACNA1C-rs769087-A, with larger dorsolateral-prefrontal/superior frontal gyrus and hippocampi (both with anatomical and directional concordance); (2) ZNF804A-rs11681373-A, with smaller angular gyrus grey matter and rectus gyri white matter (both with anatomical and directional concordance); and (3) BDNF-rs6265-T with superior frontal and middle cingulate gyri volume change (with anatomical and allelic concordance). CONCLUSIONS Most literature findings were not herein replicated. Nevertheless, high degree/likelihood of replication was found for two genome-wide association studies- and one candidate-implicated SNPs, supporting their involvement in psychosis and brain structure.
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- Nuno Vouga Ribeiro
- Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’ College London, London, UK
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology & National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM), Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Centre (ASBAM), Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’ College London, London, UK
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’ College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’ College London, London, UK
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- Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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Going deep into schizophrenia with artificial intelligence. Schizophr Res 2022; 245:122-140. [PMID: 34103242 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2021.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Revised: 05/24/2021] [Accepted: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
Despite years of research, the mechanisms governing the onset, relapse, symptomatology, and treatment of schizophrenia (SZ) remain elusive. The lack of appropriate analytic tools to deal with the heterogeneity and complexity of SZ may be one of the reasons behind this situation. Deep learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) inspired by the nervous system, has recently provided an accessible way of modeling and analyzing complex, high-dimensional, nonlinear systems. The unprecedented accuracy of deep learning algorithms in classification and prediction tasks has revolutionized a wide range of scientific fields and is rapidly permeating SZ research. Deep learning has the potential of becoming a valuable aid for clinicians in the prediction, diagnosis, and treatment of SZ, especially in combination with principles from Bayesian statistics. Furthermore, deep learning could become a powerful tool for uncovering the mechanisms underlying SZ thanks to a growing number of techniques designed for improving model interpretability and causal reasoning. The purpose of this article is to introduce SZ researchers to the field of deep learning and review its latest applications in SZ research. In general, existing studies have yielded impressive results in classification and outcome prediction tasks. However, methodological concerns related to the assessment of model performance in several studies, the widespread use of small training datasets, and the little clinical value of some models suggest that some of these results should be taken with caution.
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Prasad KM, Gertler J, Tollefson S, Wood JA, Roalf D, Gur RC, Gur RE, Almasy L, Pogue-Geile MF, Nimgaonkar VL. Heritable anisotropy associated with cognitive impairments among patients with schizophrenia and their non-psychotic relatives in multiplex families. Psychol Med 2022; 52:989-1000. [PMID: 32878667 PMCID: PMC8218223 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291720002883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND To test the functional implications of impaired white matter (WM) connectivity among patients with schizophrenia and their relatives, we examined the heritability of fractional anisotropy (FA) measured on diffusion tensor imaging data acquired in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, and its association with cognitive performance in a unique sample of 175 multigenerational non-psychotic relatives of 23 multiplex schizophrenia families and 240 unrelated controls (total = 438). METHODS We examined polygenic inheritance (h2r) of FA in 24 WM tracts bilaterally, and also pleiotropy to test whether heritability of FA in multiple WM tracts is secondary to genetic correlation among tracts using the Sequential Oligogenic Linkage Analysis Routines. Partial correlation tests examined the correlation of FA with performance on eight cognitive domains on the Penn Computerized Neurocognitive Battery, controlling for age, sex, site and mother's education, followed by multiple comparison corrections. RESULTS Significant total additive genetic heritability of FA was observed in all three-categories of WM tracts (association, commissural and projection fibers), in total 33/48 tracts. There were significant genetic correlations in 40% of tracts. Diagnostic group main effects were observed only in tracts with significantly heritable FA. Correlation of FA with neurocognitive impairments was observed mainly in heritable tracts. CONCLUSIONS Our data show significant heritability of all three-types of tracts among relatives of schizophrenia. Significant heritability of FA of multiple tracts was not entirely due to genetic correlations among the tracts. Diagnostic group main effect and correlation with neurocognitive performance were mainly restricted to tracts with heritable FA suggesting shared genetic effects on these traits.
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- KM Prasad
- Departments of Psychiatry and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA
- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA
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Guan F, Ni T, Zhu W, Williams LK, Cui LB, Li M, Tubbs J, Sham PC, Gui H. Integrative omics of schizophrenia: from genetic determinants to clinical classification and risk prediction. Mol Psychiatry 2022; 27:113-126. [PMID: 34193973 PMCID: PMC11018294 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-021-01201-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Revised: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a debilitating neuropsychiatric disorder with high heritability and complex inheritance. In the past decade, successful identification of numerous susceptibility loci has provided useful insights into the molecular etiology of SCZ. However, applications of these findings to clinical classification and diagnosis, risk prediction, or intervention for SCZ have been limited, and elucidating the underlying genomic and molecular mechanisms of SCZ is still challenging. More recently, multiple Omics technologies - genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, connectomics, and gut microbiomics - have all been applied to examine different aspects of SCZ pathogenesis. Integration of multi-Omics data has thus emerged as an approach to provide a more comprehensive view of biological complexity, which is vital to enable translation into assessments and interventions of clinical benefit to individuals with SCZ. In this review, we provide a broad survey of the single-omics studies of SCZ, summarize the advantages and challenges of different Omics technologies, and then focus on studies in which multiple omics data are integrated to unravel the complex pathophysiology of SCZ. We believe that integration of multi-Omics technologies would provide a roadmap to create a more comprehensive picture of interactions involved in the complex pathogenesis of SCZ, constitute a rich resource for elucidating the potential molecular mechanisms of the illness, and eventually improve clinical assessments and interventions of SCZ to address clinical translational questions from bench to bedside.
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- Fanglin Guan
- Department of Forensic Psychiatry, School of Medicine & Forensics, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Forensic Psychiatry, School of Medicine & Forensics, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- National Institute on Drug Dependence and Beijing Key Laboratory of Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Center for Individualized and Genomic Medicine Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Medical Psychology, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Centre for PanorOmic Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
- Centre for PanorOmic Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
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- Center for Individualized and Genomic Medicine Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA.
- Behavioral Health Services, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA.
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Zhao SW, Xu X, Wang XY, Yan TC, Cao Y, Yan QH, Chen K, Jin YC, Zhang YH, Yin H, Cui LB. Shaping the Trans-Scale Properties of Schizophrenia via Cerebral Alterations on Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms of Coding and Non-Coding Regions. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:720239. [PMID: 34566604 PMCID: PMC8458928 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.720239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Schizophrenia is a complex mental illness with genetic heterogeneity, which is often accompanied by alterations in brain structure and function. The neurobiological mechanism of schizophrenia associated with heredity remains unknown. Recently, the development of trans-scale and multi-omics methods that integrate gene and imaging information sheds new light on the nature of schizophrenia. In this article, we summarized the results of brain structural and functional changes related to the specific single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the past decade, and the SNPs were divided into non-coding regions and coding regions, respectively. It is hoped that the relationship between SNPs and cerebral alterations can be displayed more clearly and intuitively, so as to provide fresh approaches for the discovery of potential biomarkers and the development of clinical accurate individualized treatment decision-making.
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- Shu-Wan Zhao
- Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Medical Psychology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China.,Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Medical Psychology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Medical Psychology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Medical Psychology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Anatomy and K. K. Leung Brain Research Centre, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Medical Psychology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Medical Psychology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China.,Department of Radiology, The Second Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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Effects of fingolimod, a sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor agonist, on white matter microstructure, cognition and symptoms in schizophrenia. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 15:1802-1814. [PMID: 32893328 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-020-00375-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Several lines of evidence have implicated white matter (WM) deficits in schizophrenia, including microstructural alterations from diffusion tensor (DTI) brain imaging studies. It has been proposed that dysregulated inflammatory processes, including heightened activity of circulating lymphocytes, may contribute to WM pathology in this illness. Fingolimod is a sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor agonist that is approved for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS). Fingolimod robustly decreases the number of circulating lymphocytes through sequestration of these cells in lymph tissue. In addition, this agent improved WM microstructure as shown by increases in DTI fractional anisotropy (FA). In this pilot study, we assessed the effects of fingolimod on WM microstructure, cognition and symptoms in an eight-week, double-blind trial. Forty subjects with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder were randomized 1:1 to fingolimod (0.5 mg/day) and placebo. Fingolimod caused significant reductions in circulating lymphocytes (p < .001). In addition, there was a statistically non-significant association (p = .089) between DTI-FA change in the WM skeleton and fingolimod. There were significant relationships between the degree of lymphocyte reductions and increases in FA in the corpus collosum (p = .004) and right superior longitudinal fasciculus ( p = .02), and a non-significant correlation with the WM skeleton. There were no significant fingolimod versus placebo interactions on cognitive or symptom measures. There were no serious adverse events related to fingolimod treatment. Future studies with larger samples and treatment durations are needed to further establish fingolimod's potential therapeutic effects in schizophrenia.
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Large-scale GWAS reveals genetic architecture of brain white matter microstructure and genetic overlap with cognitive and mental health traits (n = 17,706). Mol Psychiatry 2021; 26:3943-3955. [PMID: 31666681 PMCID: PMC7190426 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-019-0569-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2019] [Revised: 10/01/2019] [Accepted: 10/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Individual variations of white matter (WM) tracts are known to be associated with various cognitive and neuropsychiatric traits. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from 17,706 UK Biobank participants offer the opportunity to identify novel genetic variants of WM tracts and explore the genetic overlap with other brain-related complex traits. We analyzed the genetic architecture of 110 tract-based DTI parameters, carried out genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and performed post-GWAS analyses, including association lookups, gene-based association analysis, functional gene mapping, and genetic correlation estimation. We found that DTI parameters are substantially heritable for all WM tracts (mean heritability 48.7%). We observed a highly polygenic architecture of genetic influence across the genome (p value = 1.67 × 10-05) as well as the enrichment of genetic effects for active SNPs annotated by central nervous system cells (p value = 8.95 × 10-12). GWAS identified 213 independent significant SNPs associated with 90 DTI parameters (696 SNP-level and 205 locus-level associations; p value < 4.5 × 10-10, adjusted for testing multiple phenotypes). Gene-based association study prioritized 112 significant genes, most of which are novel. More importantly, association lookups found that many of the novel SNPs and genes of DTI parameters have previously been implicated with cognitive and mental health traits. In conclusion, the present study identifies many new genetic variants at SNP, locus and gene levels for integrity of brain WM tracts and provides the overview of pleiotropy with cognitive and mental health traits.
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Chang X, Mandl RCW, Pasternak O, Brouwer RM, Cahn W, Collin G. Diffusion MRI derived free-water imaging measures in patients with schizophrenia and their non-psychotic siblings. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2021; 109:110238. [PMID: 33400942 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2020.110238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/30/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Free-water imaging is a diffusion MRI technique that separately models water diffusion hindered by fiber tissue and water that disperses freely in the extracellular space. Studies using this technique have shown that schizophrenia is characterized by a lower level of fractional anisotropy of the tissue compartment (FAt) and higher free-water fractional volume (FW). It is unknown, however, whether such abnormalities are an expression of pre-existing (genetic) risk for schizophrenia or a manifestation of the illness. To investigate the contribution of familial risk factors to white matter abnormalities, we used the free-water imaging technique to assess FAt and FW in a large cohort of 471 participants including 161 patients with schizophrenia, 182 non-psychotic siblings, and 128 healthy controls. In this sample, patients did not show significant differences in FAt as compared to controls, but did exhibit a higher level of FW relative to both controls and siblings in the left uncinate fasciculus, superior corona radiata and fornix / stria terminalis. This increase in FW was found to be related to, though not solely explained by, ventricular enlargement. Siblings did not show significant FW abnormalities. However, siblings did show a higher level of FAt as compared to controls and patients, in line with results of a previous study on the same data using conventional DTI. Taken together, our findings suggest that extracellular free-water accumulation in patients is likely a manifestation of established disease rather than an expression of familial risk for schizophrenia and that super-normal levels of FAt in unaffected siblings may reflect a compensatory process.
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- Xiao Chang
- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), UMCU Brain Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK; Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), UMCU Brain Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), UMCU Brain Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), UMCU Brain Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Altrecht Institute of Mental Health Care, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), UMCU Brain Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
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Wang D, Zhuo K, Sun Y, Xiang Q, Guo X, Wang J, Xu Y, Liu D, Li Y. Middle temporal corpus callosum impairment as a predictor of eight-week treatment outcome of drug-naïve first-episode psychosis patients: A pilot longitudinal study. Schizophr Res 2021; 232:95-97. [PMID: 34029947 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2021.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2020] [Revised: 05/01/2021] [Accepted: 05/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Danni Wang
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
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- First-episode Schizophrenia and Early Psychosis Program, Division of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang 310052, China; Department of Radiology, the Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Zhejiang 310052, China
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- First-episode Schizophrenia and Early Psychosis Program, Division of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
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- First-episode Schizophrenia and Early Psychosis Program, Division of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
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- First-episode Schizophrenia and Early Psychosis Program, Division of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China; Institute of Mental Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200030, China
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- First-episode Schizophrenia and Early Psychosis Program, Division of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China; Institute of Mental Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200030, China.
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China.
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Zhao B, Shan Y, Yang Y, Yu Z, Li T, Wang X, Luo T, Zhu Z, Sullivan P, Zhao H, Li Y, Zhu H. Transcriptome-wide association analysis of brain structures yields insights into pleiotropy with complex neuropsychiatric traits. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2878. [PMID: 34001886 PMCID: PMC8128893 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23130-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Structural variations of the human brain are heritable and highly polygenic traits, with hundreds of associated genes identified in recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) can both prioritize these GWAS findings and also identify additional gene-trait associations. Here we perform cross-tissue TWAS analysis of 211 structural neuroimaging and discover 278 associated genes exceeding Bonferroni significance threshold of 1.04 × 10-8. The TWAS-significant genes for brain structures have been linked to a wide range of complex traits in different domains. Through TWAS gene-based polygenic risk scores (PRS) prediction, we find that TWAS PRS gains substantial power in association analysis compared to conventional variant-based GWAS PRS, and up to 6.97% of phenotypic variance (p-value = 7.56 × 10-31) can be explained in independent testing data sets. In conclusion, our study illustrates that TWAS can be a powerful supplement to traditional GWAS in imaging genetics studies for gene discovery-validation, genetic co-architecture analysis, and polygenic risk prediction.
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- Bingxin Zhao
- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Interdepartmental Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Biomedical Research Imaging Center, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Interdepartmental Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
- Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
- Biomedical Research Imaging Center, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
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White matter microstructure in women with acute and remitted anorexia nervosa: an exploratory neuroimaging study. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 14:2429-2437. [PMID: 31605281 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-019-00193-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder characterized by starvation and emaciation and associated with changes in brain structure. The precise nature of these changes remains unclear, as does their developmental time course and capacity for reversal with weight restoration. In this exploratory neuroimaging study, we sought to characterize changes in white matter microstructure in women with acute and remitted AN. Diffusion-weighted MRI data was collected from underweight women with a current diagnosis of AN (acAN: n = 23), weight-recovered women with a past diagnosis of AN (recAN: n = 23), and age-matched healthy control women (HC: n = 24). Image processing and analysis were performed with Tract-Based Spatial Statistics, part of FSL, and group differences in voxelwise, brain-wide fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD), indices of white matter microstructure, were tested with nonparametric permutation and threshold-free cluster enhancement. No significant main effect of group on FA was identified. A significant main effect of group on MD was observed in a large cluster covering 9.2% of white matter and including substantial portions of the corpus callosum, corona radiata, internal capsule, and superior longitudinal fasciculus, and post hoc analyses revealed similar effects of group on axial diffusivity (AD) and radial diffusivity (RD). Clusterwise MD was significantly higher in acAN participants (+3.8%) and recAN participants (+2.9%) than healthy controls, and the same was true for clusterwise AD and RD. Trait-based increases in diffusivity, changes in which have been associated with atypical myelination and impaired axon integrity, suggest a link between altered white matter microstructure and vulnerability to AN, and evidence of reduced oligodendrocyte density in AN provides further support for this hypothesis. Potential mechanisms of action include atypical neurodevelopment and systemic inflammation.
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Domen P, Michielse S, Peeters S, Viechtbauer W, van Os J, Marcelis M. Childhood trauma- and cannabis-associated microstructural white matter changes in patients with psychotic disorder: a longitudinal family-based diffusion imaging study. Psychol Med 2019; 49:628-638. [PMID: 29807550 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291718001320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Decreased white matter (WM) integrity in patients with psychotic disorder has been a consistent finding in diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies. However, the contribution of environmental risk factors to these WM alterations is rarely investigated. The current study examines whether individuals with (increased risk for) psychotic disorder will show increased WM integrity change over time with increasing levels of childhood trauma and cannabis exposure. METHODS DTI scans were obtained from 85 patients with a psychotic disorder, 93 non-psychotic siblings and 80 healthy controls, of which 60% were rescanned 3 years later. In a whole-brain voxel-based analysis, associations between change in fractional anisotropy (ΔFA) and environmental exposures as well as interactions between group and environmental exposure in the model of FA and ΔFA were investigated. Analyses were adjusted for a priori hypothesized confounding variables: age, sex, and level of education. RESULTS At baseline, no significant associations were found between FA and both environmental risk factors. At follow-up as well as over a 3-year interval, significant interactions between group and, respectively, cannabis exposure and childhood trauma exposure in the model of FA and ΔFA were found. Patients showed more FA decrease over time compared with both controls and siblings when exposed to higher levels of cannabis or childhood trauma. CONCLUSIONS Higher levels of cannabis or childhood trauma may compromise connectivity over the course of the illness in patients, but not in individuals at low or higher than average genetic risk for psychotic disorder, suggesting interactions between the environment and illness-related factors.
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- Patrick Domen
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology,School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht,The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology,School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht,The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology,School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht,The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology,School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht,The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology,School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht,The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology,School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht,The Netherlands
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Discoidin domain receptor 1 gene variants are associated with decreased white matter fractional anisotropy and decreased processing speed in schizophrenia. J Psychiatr Res 2019; 110:74-82. [PMID: 30597424 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2018.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2018] [Revised: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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DDR1 has been linked to schizophrenia (SZ) and myelination. Here, we tested whether DDR1 variants in people at risk for SZ influence white matter (WM) structural variations and cognitive processing speed (PS). First, following a case-control design (Study 1), SZ patients (N = 1193) and controls (N = 1839) were genotyped for rs1264323 and rs2267641 at DDR1, and the frequencies were compared. We replicated the association between DDR1 and SZ (rs1264323, adjusted P = 0.015). Carriers of the rs1264323AA combined with the rs2267641AC or CC genotype are at risk to develop SZ compared to the other genotype combinations. Second, SZ patients (Study 2, N = 194) underwent an evaluation of PS using the Trail Making Test (TMT) and DDR1 genotyping. To compare PS between DDR1 genotype groups, we conducted an analysis of covariance (including rs1264323 as a covariate) and found that SZ patients with the rs2267641CC genotype had decreased PS compared to patients with the AA and AC genotypes. Third, 54 patients (Study 3) from Study 2 were selected based on rs1264323 genotype to undergo reevaluation, including a DTI-MRI brain scan. To test for associations between PS, WM microstructure and DDR1 genotype, we first localized those WM regions where fractional anisotropy (FA) was correlated with PS and tested whether FA showed differences between the rs1264323 genotypes. SZ patients with the rs1264323AA genotype showed decreased FA in WM regions associated with decreased PS. We conclude that DDR1 variants may confer a risk of SZ through WM microstructural alterations leading to cognitive dysfunction.
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Vogel BO, Lett TA, Erk S, Mohnke S, Wackerhagen C, Brandl EJ, Romanczuk-Seiferth N, Otto K, Schweiger JI, Tost H, Nöthen MM, Rietschel M, Degenhardt F, Witt SH, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Heinz A, Walter H. The influence of MIR137 on white matter fractional anisotropy and cortical surface area in individuals with familial risk for psychosis. Schizophr Res 2018; 195:190-196. [PMID: 28958479 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.09.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Revised: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The rs1625579 variant near the microRNA-137 (MIR137) gene is one of the best-supported schizophrenia variants in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and microRNA-137 functionally regulates other GWAS identified schizophrenia risk variants. Schizophrenia patients with the MIR137 rs1625579 risk genotype (homozygous for the schizophrenia risk variant) also have aberrant brain structure. It is unclear if the effect of MIR137 among schizophrenia patients is due to potential epistasis with genetic risk for schizophrenia or other factors of the disorder. Here, we investigated the effect of MIR137 genotype on white matter fractional anisotropy (FA), cortical thickness (CT), and surface area (SA) in a sample comprising healthy control subjects, and individuals with familial risk for psychosis (first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder; N=426). In voxel-wise analyses of FA, we observed a significant genotype-by-group interaction (PFWE<0.05). The familial risk group with risk genotype had lower FA (PFWE<0.05), but there was no genetic association in controls. In vertex-wise analyses of SA, we also observed a significant genotype-by-group interaction (PFWE<0.05). Relatives with MIR137 risk genotype had lower SA, however the risk genotype was associated with higher SA in the controls (all PFWE<0.05). These results show that MIR137 risk genotype is associated with lower FA in psychosis relatives that is similar to previous imaging-genetics findings in patients with schizophrenia. Furthermore, MIR137 genotype may also be a risk factor in a subclinical population with wide reductions in white matter FA and cortical SA.
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- Bob O Vogel
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute of Health, Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Straße 2, 10178 Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, J 5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany.
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, J 5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany.
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, J 5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany.
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- Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany; Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany.
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, J 5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany.
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- Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany; Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany.
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, J 5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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Sakamoto K, Crowley JJ. A comprehensive review of the genetic and biological evidence supports a role for MicroRNA-137 in the etiology of schizophrenia. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2018; 177:242-256. [PMID: 29442441 PMCID: PMC5815396 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 05/05/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Since it was first associated with schizophrenia (SCZ) in a 2011 genome-wide association study (GWAS), there have been over 100 publications focused on MIR137, the gene encoding microRNA-137. These studies have examined everything from its fundamental role in the development of mice, flies, and fish to the intriguing enrichment of its target gene network in SCZ. Indeed, much of the excitement surrounding MIR137 is due to the distinct possibility that it could regulate a gene network involved in SCZ etiology, a disease which we now recognize is highly polygenic. Here we comprehensively review, to the best of our ability, all published genetic and biological evidence that could support or refute a role for MIR137 in the etiology of SCZ. Through a careful consideration of the literature, we conclude that the data gathered to date continues to strongly support the involvement of MIR137 and its target gene network in neuropsychiatric traits, including SCZ risk. There remain, however, more unanswered than answered questions regarding the mechanisms linking MIR137 genetic variation with behavior. These questions need answers before we can determine whether there are opportunities for diagnostic or therapeutic interventions based on MIR137. We conclude with a number of suggestions for future research on MIR137 that could help to provide answers and hope for a greater understanding of this devastating disorder.
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- Kensuke Sakamoto
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Investigation of superior longitudinal fasciculus fiber complexity in recent onset psychosis. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2018; 81:114-121. [PMID: 29111405 PMCID: PMC5816971 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2017.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2017] [Revised: 10/12/2017] [Accepted: 10/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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BACKGROUND Standard diffusion tensor imaging measures (e.g., fractional anisotropy; FA) are difficult to interpret in brain regions with crossing white-matter (WM) fibers. Diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) can be used to resolve fiber crossing, but has been difficult to implement in studies of patients with psychosis given long scan times. METHODS We used four fold accelerated compressed sensing to accelerate DSI acquisition to investigate the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) in 27 (20M/7F) patients with recent onset psychosis and 23 (11M/12F) healthy volunteers. Dependent measures included the number of crossing fiber directions, multi directional anisotropy (MDA), which is a measure sensitive to the anisotropy of the underlying water diffusion in regions of crossing fibers, generalized FA (GFA) computed from the orientation distribution function, FA and tract volume. RESULTS Patients demonstrated a greater number of crossing WM fibers, lower MDA, GFA and FA in the left SLF compared to healthy volunteers. Patients also demonstrated a reversal in the normal (R>L) asymmetry of crossing fiber directions in the SLF and a lack of normal (L>R) asymmetry in MDA, GFA and FA compared to healthy volunteers. Lower GFA correlated significantly (p<0.05) with worse overall neuropsychological functioning; posthoc tests revealed significant effects with verbal functioning and processing speed. CONCLUSIONS Our findings provide the first in vivo evidence for abnormal crossing fibers within the SLF among individuals with psychosis and their functional correlates. A reversal in the normal pattern of WM asymmetry of crossing fibers in patients may be consistent with an aberrant neurodevelopmental process.
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Huang JY, Liu CM, Hwang TJ, Chen YJ, Hsu YC, Hwu HG, Lin YT, Hsieh MH, Liu CC, Chien YL, Tseng WYI. Shared and distinct alterations of white matter tracts in remitted and nonremitted patients with schizophrenia. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 39:2007-2019. [PMID: 29377322 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2017] [Revised: 01/13/2018] [Accepted: 01/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Patients with schizophrenia do not usually achieve remission state even after adequate antipsychotics treatment. Previous studies found significant difference in white matter integrity between patients with good outcomes and those with poor outcomes, but difference is still unclear at individual tract level. This study aimed to use a systematic approach to identify the tracts that were associated with remission state in patients with schizophrenia. We evaluated 91 patients with schizophrenia (remitted, 50; nonremitted, 41) and 50 healthy controls through diffusion spectrum imaging. White matter tract integrity was assessed through an automatic tract-specific analysis method to determine the mean generalized fractional anisotropy (GFA) values of the 76 white matter tract bundles in each participant. Analysis of covariance among the 3 groups revealed 12 tracts that were significantly different in GFA values. Post-hoc analysis showed that compared with the healthy controls, the nonremission group had reduced integrity in all 12 tracts, whereas the remission group had reduced integrity in only 4 tracts. Comparison between the remission and nonremission groups revealed 4 tracts with significant difference (i.e., the right fornix, bilateral uncinate fasciculi, and callosal fibers connecting the temporal poles) even after adjusting age, sex, education year, illness duration, and medication dose. Furthermore, all the 4 tracts were correlated with negative symptoms scores of the positive and negative syndrome scale. In conclusion, our study identified the tracts that were associated with remission state of schizophrenia. These tracts might be a potential prognostic marker for the symptomatic remission in patients with schizophrenia.
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- Jing-Ying Huang
- Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Radiology, Wei Gong Memorial Hospital, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Medical Imaging, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Molecular Imaging Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Abstract
Imaging genetics is a research methodology studying the effect of genetic variation on brain structure, function, behavior, and risk for psychopathology. Since the early 2000s, imaging genetics has been increasingly used in the research of schizophrenia (SZ). SZ is a severe mental disorder with no precise knowledge of its underlying neurobiology, however, new genetic and neurobiological data generate a climate for new avenues. The accumulating data of genome wide association studies (GWAS) continuously decode SZ risk genes. Global neuroimaging consortia produce collections of brain phenotypes from tens of thousands of people. In this context, imaging genetics will be strategically important both for the validation and discovery of SZ related findings. Thus, the study of GWAS supported risk variants as candidate genes to validate by neuroimaging is one trend. The study of epigenetic differences in relation to variations of brain phenotypes and the study of large scale multivariate analysis of genome wide and brain wide associations are other trends. While these studies hold a big potential for understanding the neurobiology of SZ, the problem of reproducibility appears as a major challenge, which requires standardizations in study designs and compensations of methodological limitations such as sensitivity and specificity. On the other hand, advancements of neuroimaging, optical and electron microscopy along with the use of genetically encoded fluorescent probes and robust statistical approaches will not only catalyze integrative methodologies but also will help better design the imaging genetics studies. In this invited paper, I will discuss the current perspective of imaging genetics and emerging opportunities of SZ research.
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- Ayla Arslan
- Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, International University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Uskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Harari JH, Díaz-Caneja CM, Janssen J, Martínez K, Arias B, Arango C. The association between gene variants and longitudinal structural brain changes in psychosis: a systematic review of longitudinal neuroimaging genetics studies. NPJ SCHIZOPHRENIA 2017; 3:40. [PMID: 29093492 PMCID: PMC5665946 DOI: 10.1038/s41537-017-0036-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2017] [Revised: 08/18/2017] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Evidence suggests that genetic variation might influence structural brain alterations in psychotic disorders. Longitudinal genetic neuroimaging (G-NI) studies are designed to assess the association between genetic variants, disease progression and brain changes. There is a paucity of reviews of longitudinal G-NI studies in psychotic disorders. A systematic search of PubMed from inception until November 2016 was conducted to identify longitudinal G-NI studies examining the link between Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)-based brain measurements and specific gene variants (SNPs, microsatellites, haplotypes) in patients with psychosis. Eleven studies examined seven genes: BDNF, COMT, NRG1, DISC1, CNR1, GAD1, and G72. Eight of these studies reported at least one association between a specific gene variant and longitudinal structural brain changes. Genetic variants associated with longitudinal brain volume or cortical thickness loss included a 4-marker haplotype in G72, a microsatellite and a SNP in NRG1, and individual SNPs in DISC1, CNR1, BDNF, COMT and GAD1. Associations between genotype and progressive brain changes were most frequently observed in frontal regions, with five studies reporting significant interactions. Effect sizes for significant associations were generally of small or intermediate magnitude (Cohen’s d < 0.8). Only two genes (BDNF and NRG1) were assessed in more than one study, with great heterogeneity of the results. Replication studies and studies exploring additional genetic variants identified by large-scale genetic analysis are warranted to further ascertain the role of genetic variants in longitudinal brain changes in psychosis.
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- Julia H Harari
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, CIBERSAM, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.,University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, CIBERSAM, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, CIBERSAM, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.,Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, CIBERSAM, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- Zoology and Biological Anthropology Unit. Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals. IBUB., Faculty of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. .,CIBERSAM (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, CIBERSAM, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
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Kanaan RA, Picchioni MM, McDonald C, Shergill SS, McGuire PK. White matter deficits in schizophrenia are global and don't progress with age. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2017; 51:1020-1031. [PMID: 28382844 PMCID: PMC5624299 DOI: 10.1177/0004867417700729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Diffusion tensor imaging has revealed differences in all examined white matter tracts in schizophrenia, with a range of explanations for why this may be. The distribution and timing of differences may help explain their origin; however, results are usually dependent on the analytical method. We therefore sought to examine the extent of differences and their relationship with age using two different methods. METHODS A combined voxel-based whole-brain study and a tract-based spatial-statistics study of 104 patients with schizophrenia and 200 matched healthy controls, aged between 17 and 63 years. RESULTS Fractional anisotropy was reduced throughout the brain in both analyses. The relationship of fractional anisotropy with age differed between patients and controls, with controls showing the gentle fractional anisotropy decline widely noted but patients showing an essentially flat relationship: younger patients had lower fractional anisotropy than controls, but the difference disappeared with age. Mean diffusivity was widely increased in patients. CONCLUSION Reduction in fractional anisotropy and increase in mean diffusivity would be consistent with global disruption in myelination; the relationship with age would suggest this is present already at the onset of their illness, but does not progress.
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- Richard A Kanaan
- Department of Psychiatry, Austin Health, The University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia
- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- St Andrew’s Academic Department and King’s College London, Northampton, UK
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- National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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Jeon SJ, Ryu JH, Bahn GH. Altered Translational Control of Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein on Myelin Proteins in Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Biomol Ther (Seoul) 2017; 25:231-238. [PMID: 27829268 PMCID: PMC5424632 DOI: 10.4062/biomolther.2016.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2016] [Revised: 06/28/2016] [Accepted: 07/28/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Myelin is a specialized structure of the nervous system that both enhances electrical conductance and insulates neurons from external risk factors. In the central nervous system, polarized oligodendrocytes form myelin by wrapping processes in a spiral pattern around neuronal axons through myelin-related gene regulation. Since these events occur at a distance from the cell body, post-transcriptional control of gene expression has strategic advantage to fine-tune the overall regulation of protein contents in situ. Therefore, many research interests have been focused to identify RNA binding proteins and their regulatory mechanism in myelinating compartments. Fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) is one such RNA binding protein, regulating its target expression by translational control. Although the majority of works on FMRP have been performed in neurons, it is also found in the developing or mature glial cells including oligodendrocytes, where its function is not well understood. Here, we will review evidences suggesting abnormal translational regulation of myelin proteins with accompanying white matter problem and neurological deficits in fragile X syndrome, which can have wider mechanistic and pathological implication in many other neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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- Se Jin Jeon
- Department of Life and Nanopharmaceutical Science, College of Pharmacy, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Life and Nanopharmaceutical Science, College of Pharmacy, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea
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Guo W, Cai Y, Zhang H, Yang Y, Yang G, Wang X, Zhao J, Lin J, Zhu J, Li W, Lv L. Association of ARHGAP18 polymorphisms with schizophrenia in the Chinese-Han population. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0175209. [PMID: 28384650 PMCID: PMC5383423 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2017] [Accepted: 03/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Numerous developmental genes have been linked to schizophrenia (SZ) by case-control and genome-wide association studies, suggesting that neurodevelopmental disturbances are major pathogenic mechanisms. However, no neurodevelopmental deficit has been definitively linked to SZ occurrence, likely due to disease heterogeneity and the differential effects of various gene variants across ethnicities. Hence, it is critical to examine linkages in specific ethnic populations, such as Han Chinese. The newly identified RhoGAP ARHGAP18 is likely involved in neurodevelopment through regulation of RhoA/C. Here we describe four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ARHGAP18 associated with SZ across a cohort of >2000 cases and controls from the Han population. Two SNPs, rs7758025 and rs9483050, displayed significant differences between case and control groups both in genotype (P = 0.0002 and P = 7.54×10−6) and allelic frequencies (P = 4.36×10−5 and P = 5.98×10−7), respectively. The AG haplotype in rs7758025−rs9385502 was strongly associated with the occurrence of SZ (P = 0.0012, OR = 0.67, 95% CI = 0.48–0.93), an association that still held following a 1000-times random permutation test (P = 0.022). In an independently collected validation cohort, rs9483050 was the SNP most strongly associated with SZ. In addition, the allelic frequencies of rs12197901 remained associated with SZ in the combined cohort (P = 0.021), although not in the validation cohort alone (P = 0.251). Collectively, our data suggest the ARHGAP18 may confer vulnerability to SZ in the Chinese Han population, providing additional evidence for the involvement of neurodevelopmental dysfunction in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.
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- Weiyun Guo
- College of Life Science and Technology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.,Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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- Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.,Department of Psychiatry, Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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- Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.,Department of Psychiatry, Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.,Department of Psychology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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- Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.,Department of Psychiatry, Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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- Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.,Department of Psychiatry, Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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- Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.,Department of Psychiatry, Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.,Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.,Institute of Anatomy I, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Anatomy I, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.,Department of Psychology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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- Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.,Department of Psychiatry, Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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- Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.,Department of Psychiatry, Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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Vuoksimaa E, Panizzon MS, Hagler DJ, Hatton SN, Fennema-Notestine C, Rinker D, Eyler LT, Franz CE, Lyons MJ, Neale MC, Tsuang MT, Dale AM, Kremen WS. Heritability of white matter microstructure in late middle age: A twin study of tract-based fractional anisotropy and absolute diffusivity indices. Hum Brain Mapp 2016; 38:2026-2036. [PMID: 28032374 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2016] [Revised: 12/08/2016] [Accepted: 12/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
There is evidence that differences among individuals in white matter microstructure, as measured with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), are under genetic control. However, little is known about the relative contribution of genetic and environmental effects on different diffusivity indices among late middle-aged adults. Here, we examined the magnitude of genetic influences for fractional anisotropy (FA), and mean (MD), axial (AD), and radial (RD) diffusivities in male twins aged 56-66 years old. Using an atlas-based registration approach to delineate individual white matter tracts, we investigated mean DTI-based indices within the corpus callosum, 12 bilateral tracts and all these regions of interest combined. All four diffusivity indices had high heritability at the global level (72%-80%). The magnitude of genetic effects in individual tracts varied from 0% to 82% for FA, 0% to 81% for MD, 8% to 77% for AD, and 0% to 80% for RD with most of the tracts showing significant heritability estimates. Despite the narrow age range of this community-based sample, age was correlated with all four diffusivity indices at the global level. In sum, all diffusion indices proved to have substantial heritability for most of the tracts and the heritability estimates were similar in magnitude for different diffusivity measures. Future studies could aim to discover the particular set of genes that underlie the significant heritability of white matter microstructure. Hum Brain Mapp 38:2026-2036, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Eero Vuoksimaa
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland and Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Imaging Genetics Center, Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,VA San Diego Healthcare System, Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, San Diego, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Center for Behavior Genomics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.,VA San Diego Healthcare System, Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health, La Jolla, California
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Wang Y, Liu L, Xin L, Fan D, Ding N, Hu Y, Cai G, Wang L, Xia Q, Li X, Yang X, Zou Y, Pan F. The -141C Ins/Del and Taq1A polymorphism in the dopamine D2 receptor gene may confer susceptibility to schizophrenia in Asian populations. J Clin Neurosci 2016; 30:1-7. [PMID: 27283386 DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2015.10.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Revised: 10/27/2015] [Accepted: 10/31/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
It has been reported that two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) Taq1A and -141C Ins/Del in the DRD2 gene may be associated with susceptibility to schizophrenia. Due to inconclusive and mixed results, a meta-analysis was conducted to further clarify the relationship between the two SNP and schizophrenia susceptibility. A systematic literature search for the association of these two SNP with schizophrenia susceptibility was conducted using PubMed, ScienceDirect, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, and Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure. Odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were used to assess the strength of the associations reported. A total of 5558 schizophrenic patients and 6792 healthy controls from 31 articles were included in this study. Evidence regarding the association between -141C Ins/Del polymorphism and schizophrenia was found in the allele frequency comparison (Ins versus Del: OR 1.29, 95% CI 1.06-1.57; p=0.01, Praw=0.1, PFalse Discovery Rate=0.023). In ethnic subgroup analysis, the result revealed that the 141C Ins/Del polymorphism was associated with schizophrenia in all genetic models in Asians, but not in Caucasians. For Taq1A polymorphism, a significant association was found in the allele frequency (A1 versus A2: OR 0.71, 95% CI 0.52-0.98, p=0.03). Stratification by ethnicity indicated an association between the Taq1A polymorphism and schizophrenia in Asians, but not Caucasians. The present study suggests that the -141C Ins/Del polymorphism carries a significantly increased risk of schizophrenia, while the Taq1A polymorphism carries a significantly decreased risk of schizophrenia susceptibility in Asians.
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- Yurong Wang
- Medical Department of Hefei Vocational and Technical College, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China.
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The dopamine beta-hydroxylase gene polymorphism rs1611114 is associated with schizophrenia in the Chinese Zhuang but not Chinese Han population. Mol Genet Genomics 2016; 291:1813-21. [DOI: 10.1007/s00438-016-1221-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2015] [Accepted: 05/24/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Landek-Salgado MA, Faust TE, Sawa A. Molecular substrates of schizophrenia: homeostatic signaling to connectivity. Mol Psychiatry 2016; 21:10-28. [PMID: 26390828 PMCID: PMC4684728 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2015.141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2014] [Revised: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 06/25/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Schizophrenia (SZ) is a devastating psychiatric condition affecting numerous brain systems. Recent studies have identified genetic factors that confer an increased risk of SZ and participate in the disease etiopathogenesis. In parallel to such bottom-up approaches, other studies have extensively reported biological changes in patients by brain imaging, neurochemical and pharmacological approaches. This review highlights the molecular substrates identified through studies with SZ patients, namely those using top-down approaches, while also referring to the fruitful outcomes of recent genetic studies. We have subclassified the molecular substrates by system, focusing on elements of neurotransmission, targets in white matter-associated connectivity, immune/inflammatory and oxidative stress-related substrates, and molecules in endocrine and metabolic cascades. We further touch on cross-talk among these systems and comment on the utility of animal models in charting the developmental progression and interaction of these substrates. Based on this comprehensive information, we propose a framework for SZ research based on the hypothesis of an imbalance in homeostatic signaling from immune/inflammatory, oxidative stress, endocrine and metabolic cascades that, at least in part, underlies deficits in neural connectivity relevant to SZ. Thus, this review aims to provide information that is translationally useful and complementary to pathogenic hypotheses that have emerged from genetic studies. Based on such advances in SZ research, it is highly expected that we will discover biomarkers that may help in the early intervention, diagnosis or treatment of SZ.
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- M A Landek-Salgado
- Department of Psychiatry, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.,Department of Neuroscience, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Patel VS, Kelly S, Wright C, Gupta CN, Arias-Vasquez A, Perrone-Bizzozero N, Ehrlich S, Wang L, Bustillo JR, Morris D, Corvin A, Cannon DM, McDonald C, Donohoe G, Calhoun VD, Turner JA. MIR137HG risk variant rs1625579 genotype is related to corpus callosum volume in schizophrenia. Neurosci Lett 2015; 602:44-9. [PMID: 26123324 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2015.06.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2015] [Revised: 06/10/2015] [Accepted: 06/17/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies implicate the MIR137HG risk variant rs1625579 (MIR137HGrv) within the host gene for microRNA-137 as a potential regulator of schizophrenia susceptibility. We examined the influence of MIR137HGrv genotype on 17 subcortical and callosal volumes in a large sample of individuals with schizophrenia and healthy controls (n=841). Although the volumes were overall reduced relative to healthy controls, for individuals with schizophrenia the homozygous MIR137HGrv risk genotype was associated with attenuated reduction of mid-posterior corpus callosum volume (p=0.001), along with trend-level effects in the adjacent central and posterior corpus callosum. These findings are unique in the literature and remain robust after analysis in ethnically homogenous and single-scanner subsets of the larger sample. Thus, our study suggests that the mechanisms whereby MIR137HGrv works to increase schizophrenia risk are not those that generate the corpus callosum volume reductions commonly found in the disorder.
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- Veena S Patel
- The Mind Research Network and Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, 1101 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA.
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- Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, and Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
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- The Mind Research Network and Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, 1101 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA; Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
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- The Mind Research Network and Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, 1101 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA.
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- Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Translational Developmental Neuroscience Section, Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
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- Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Translational Developmental Neuroscience Section, Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60614, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
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- Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, and Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory and Cognitive Genetics group, Departments of Psychiatry, Anatomy, Biochemistry and School of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
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- Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, and Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
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- Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory and Cognitive Genetics group, Departments of Psychiatry, Anatomy, Biochemistry and School of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
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- Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory and Cognitive Genetics group, Departments of Psychiatry, Anatomy, Biochemistry and School of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
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- Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, and Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory and Cognitive Genetics group, Departments of Psychiatry, Anatomy, Biochemistry and School of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
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- The Mind Research Network and Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, 1101 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA; Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA; Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
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- The Mind Research Network and Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, 1101 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA; Departments of Psychology and Neurosciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA.
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Oertel-Knöchel V, Lancaster TM, Knöchel C, Stäblein M, Storchak H, Reinke B, Jurcoane A, Kniep J, Prvulovic D, Mantripragada K, Tansey KE, O’Donovan MC, Owen MJ, Linden DE. Schizophrenia risk variants modulate white matter volume across the psychosis spectrum: evidence from two independent cohorts. Neuroimage Clin 2015; 7:764-70. [PMID: 25844328 PMCID: PMC4375641 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2014] [Revised: 02/17/2015] [Accepted: 03/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Polygenic risk scores, based on risk variants identified in genome-wide-association-studies (GWAS), explain a considerable portion of the heritability for schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). However, little is known about the combined effects of these variants, although polygenic neuroimaging has developed into a powerful tool of translational neuroscience. In this study, we used genome wide significant SZ risk variants to test the predictive capacity of the polygenic model and explored potential associations with white matter volume, a key candidate in imaging phenotype for psychotic disorders. By calculating the combined additive schizophrenia risk of seven SNPs (significant hits from a recent schizophrenia GWAS study), we show that increased additive genetic risk for SZ was associated with reduced white matter volume in a group of participants (n = 94) consisting of healthy individuals, SZ first-degree relatives, SZ patients and BD patients. This effect was also seen in a second independent sample of healthy individuals (n = 89). We suggest that a moderate portion of variance (~4%) of white matter volume can be explained by the seven hits from the recent schizophrenia GWAS. These results provide evidence for associations between cumulative genetic risk for schizophrenia and intermediate neuroimaging phenotypes in models of psychosis. Our work contributes to a growing body of literature suggesting that polygenic risk may help to explain white matter alterations associated with familial risk for psychosis.
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- Viola Oertel-Knöchel
- Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Laboratory for Neuroimaging, Goethe Univ., Frankfurt a. M, Germany
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute and MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Laboratory for Neuroimaging, Goethe Univ., Frankfurt a. M, Germany
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Laboratory for Neuroimaging, Goethe Univ., Frankfurt a. M, Germany
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Laboratory for Neuroimaging, Goethe Univ., Frankfurt a. M, Germany
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Laboratory for Neuroimaging, Goethe Univ., Frankfurt a. M, Germany
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- Institute for Neuroradiology, Goethe Univ., Frankfurt a. M, Germany
- Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Laboratory for Neuroimaging, Goethe Univ., Frankfurt a. M, Germany
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Laboratory for Neuroimaging, Goethe Univ., Frankfurt a. M, Germany
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute and MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute and MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute and MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute and MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute and MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Quantitative tract-based white matter heritability in twin neonates. Neuroimage 2015; 111:123-35. [PMID: 25700954 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2014] [Revised: 02/07/2015] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Studies in adults indicate that white matter microstructure, assessed with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), has high heritability. Little is known about genetic and environmental influences on DTI parameters, measured along fiber tracts particularly, in early childhood. In the present study, we report comprehensive heritability data of white matter microstructure fractional anisotropy (FA), radial diffusion (RD), and axial diffusion (AD) along 47 fiber tracts using the quantitative tractography in a large sample of neonatal twins (n=356). We found significant genetic influences in almost all tracts with similar heritabilities for FA, RD, and AD as well as positive relationships between these parameters and heritability. In a single tract analysis, genetic influences along the length of the tract were highly variable. These findings suggest that at birth, there is marked heterogeneity of genetic influences of white matter microstructure within white matter tracts. This study provides a basis for future studies of developmental changes in genetic and environmental influences during early childhood, a period of rapid development that likely plays a major role in individual differences in white matter structure and function.
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