Title :
Reducing structural variation to determine the genetics of white matter integrity across hemispheres - A DTI study of 100 twins
Author :
Jahanshad, Neda ; Lee, Agatha D. ; Lepore, Natasha ; Chou, Yi-Yu ; Brun, Caroline ; Barysheva, Marina ; Toga, Arthur W. ; McMahon, Katie L. ; De Zubicaray, Greig I. ; Wright, Margaret J. ; Sapiro, Guillermo ; Lenglet, Christophe ; Thompson, Paul M.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Med., Dept. of Neurology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
fDate :
June 28 2009-July 1 2009
Abstract :
Studies of cerebral asymmetry can open doors to understanding the functional specialization of each brain hemisphere, and how this is altered in disease. Here we examined hemispheric asymmetries in fiber architecture using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in 100 subjects, using high-dimensional fluid warping to disentangle shape differences from measures sensitive to myelination. Confounding effects of purely structural asymmetries were reduced by using co-registered structural images to fluidly warp 3D maps of fiber characteristics (fractional and geodesic anisotropy) to a structurally symmetric minimal deformation template (MDT). We performed a quantitative genetic analysis on 100 subjects to determine whether the sources of the remaining signal asymmetries were primarily genetic or environmental. A twin design was used to identify the heritable features of fiber asymmetry in various regions of interest, to further assist in the discovery of genes influencing brain micro-architecture and brain lateralization. Genetic influences and left/right asymmetries were detected in the fiber architecture of the frontal lobes, with minor differences depending on the choice of registration template.
Keywords :
biomechanics; biomedical MRI; brain; deformation; diseases; genetics; neurophysiology; DTI; brain hemisphere; cerebral asymmetry; co-registered structural image; diffusion tensor imaging; frontal lobe fiber architecture; genetic analysis; high-dimensional fluid warping; minimal deformation template; white matter integrity; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Australia; Biomedical imaging; Diffusion tensor imaging; Genetics; Laboratories; Level measurement; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neuroimaging; Brain Asymmetry; Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI); Fiber Architecture; Genetics; Minimal Deformation Template;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2009. ISBI '09. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3931-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1945-7928
DOI :
10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193175