Genetic clustering on the hippocampal surface for genome-wide association studies

Derrek P. Hibar, Sarah E. Medland, Jason L. Stein, Sungeun Kim, Li Shen, Andrew J. Saykin, Greig I. De Zubicaray, Katie L. McMahon, Grant W. Montgomery, Nicholas G. Martin, Margaret J. Wright, Srdjan Djurovic, Ingrid A. Agartz, Ole A. Andreassen, Paul M. Thompson

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Abstract

Imaging genetics aims to discover how variants in the human genome influence brain measures derived from images. Genome-wide association scans (GWAS) can screen the genome for common differences in our DNA that relate to brain measures. In small samples, GWAS has low power as individual gene effects are weak and one must also correct for multiple comparisons across the genome and the image. Here we extend recent work on genetic clustering of images, to analyze surface-based models of anatomy using GWAS. We performed spherical harmonic analysis of hippocampal surfaces, automatically extracted from brain MRI scans of 1254 subjects. We clustered hippocampal surface regions with common genetic influences by examining genetic correlations (rg) between the normalized deformation values at all pairs of surface points. Using genetic correlations to cluster surface measures, we were able to boost effect sizes for genetic associations, compared to clustering with traditional phenotypic correlations using Pearson's r.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2013 - 16th International Conference, Proceedings
Pages690-697
Number of pages8
EditionPART 2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2013 - Nagoya, Japan
Duration: 22 Sep 201326 Sep 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume8150 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2013
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNagoya
Period22/09/1326/09/13

Keywords

  • 3D surfaces
  • GWAS
  • clustering
  • heritability
  • hippocampus
  • imaging genetics

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