Genetic and environmental influences on structural variability of the brain in pediatric twin: Deformation based morphometry

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 493, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 8-13

  Yoon, Uicheul ^a,c,d   Perusse, Daniel ^b   Lee, Jong Min ^c   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d Catholic University of Daegu   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Environmental effect; Genetic effect; Jacobian determinant; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pediatric twin; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEFORMATION BASED MORPHOMETRY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SCHOOL CHILD; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PUTAMEN; TWINS;

EID: 79952624304     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.01.070     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Ashburner J., Friston K.J. Voxel-based morphometry - the methods. Neuroimage 2000, 11:805-821.
2. Baare W.F., Hulshoff Pol H.E., Boomsma D.I., Posthuma D., de Geus E.J., Schnack H.G., van Haren N.E., van Oel C.J., Kahn R.S. Quantitative genetic modeling of variation in human brain morphology. Cereb. Cortex 2001, 11:816-824.
3. Brun C.C., Lepore N., Pennec X., Lee A.D., Barysheva M., Madsen S.K., Avedissian C., Chou Y.Y., de Zubicaray G.I., McMahon K.L., Wright M.J., Toga A.W., Thompson P.M. Mapping the regional influence of genetics on brain structure variability - a tensor-based morphometry study. Neuroimage 2009, 48:37-49.
4. Castellanos F.X., Sharp W.S., Gottesman R.F., Greenstein D.K., Giedd J.N., Rapoport J.L. Anatomic brain abnormalities in monozygotic twins discordant for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Am. J. Psychiatry 2003, 160:1693-1696.
5. Collins D.L., Holmes C.J., Peters T.M., Evans A.C. Automatic 3-D model-based neuroanatomical segmentation. Hum. Brain Mapp. 1995, 3:190-208.
6. Collins D.L., Neelin P., Peters T.M., Evans A.C. Automatic 3D intersubject registration of MR volumetric data in standardized Talairach space. J. Comput. Assist. Tomogr. 1994, 18:192-205.
7. Falconer D.S., Mackay T.F.C. Introduction to Quantitative Genetics 1996, Longman Group, London. 4th ed.
8. Geschwind D.H., Miller B.L., DeCarli C., Carmelli D. Heritability of lobar brain volumes in twins supports genetic models of cerebral laterality and handedness. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2002, 99:3176-3181.
9. Giedd J.N., Schmitt J.E., Neale M.C. Structural brain magnetic resonance imaging of pediatric twins. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2007, 28:474-481.
10. Gilmore J.H., Schmitt J.E., Knickmeyer R.C., Smith J.K., Lin W., Styner M., Gerig G., Neale M.C. Genetic and environmental contributions to neonatal brain structure: a twin study. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2010, 31:1174-1182.
11. Goldman A.L., Pezawas L., Mattay V.S., Fischl B., Verchinski B.A., Zoltick B., Weinberger D.R., Meyer-Lindenberg A. Heritability of brain morphology related to schizophrenia: a large-scale automated magnetic resonance imaging segmentation study. Biol. Psychiatry 2008, 63:475-483.
12. Juraska J.M., Kopcik J.R. Sex and environmental influences on the size and ultrastructure of the rat corpus callosum. Brain Res. 1988, 450:1-8.
13. Lau J.C., Lerch J.P., Sled J.G., Henkelman R.M., Evans A.C., Bedell B.J. Longitudinal neuroanatomical changes determined by deformation-based morphometry in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimage 2008, 42:19-27.
14. Lenroot R.K., Giedd J.N. The changing impact of genes and environment on brain development during childhood and adolescence: initial findings from a neuroimaging study of pediatric twins. Dev. Psychopathol. 2008, 20:1161-1175.
15. Lenroot R.K., Schmitt J.E., Ordaz S.J., Wallace G.L., Neale M.C., Lerch J.P., Kendler K.S., Evans A.C., Giedd J.N. Differences in genetic and environmental influences on the human cerebral cortex associated with development during childhood and adolescence. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2009, 30:163-174.
16. Liu T., Shen D., Davatzikos C. Deformable registration of cortical structures via hybrid volumetric and surface warping. Neuroimage 2004, 22:1790-1801.
17. Lyttelton O.C., Karama S., Ad-Dab'bagh Y., Zatorre R.J., Carbonell F., Worsley K., Evans A.C. Positional and surface area asymmetry of the human cerebral cortex. Neuroimage 2009, 46:895-903.
18. Neale M.C., Boker S.M., Xie G., Maes H.H. Mx: Statistical Modeling 2003, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. 6th ed.
19. Peper J.S., Brouwer R.M., Boomsma D.I., Kahn R.S., Hulshoff Pol H.E. Genetic influences on human brain structure: a review of brain imaging studies in twins. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2007, 28:464-473.
20. Peper J.S., Schnack H.G., Brouwer R.M., Van Baal G.C., Pjetri E., Szekely E., van Leeuwen M., van den Berg S.M., Collins D.L., Evans A.C., Boomsma D.I., Kahn R.S., Hulshoff Pol H.E. Heritability of regional and global brain structure at the onset of puberty: a magnetic resonance imaging study in 9-year-old twin pairs. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2009, 30:2184-2196.
21. Schmitt J.E., Lenroot R.K., Wallace G.L., Ordaz S., Taylor K.N., Kabani N., Greenstein D., Lerch J.P., Kendler K.S., Neale M.C., Giedd J.N. Identification of genetically mediated cortical networks: a multivariate study of pediatric twins and siblings. Cereb. Cortex 2008, 18:1737-1747.
22. Sled J.G., Zijdenbos A.P., Evans A.C. A nonparametric method for automatic correction of intensity nonuniformity in MRI data. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 1998, 17:87-97.
23. Thompson P.M., Giedd J.N., Woods R.P., MacDonald D., Evans A.C., Toga A.W. Growth patterns in the developing brain detected by using continuum mechanical tensor maps. Nature 2000, 404:190-193.
24. Tohka J., Zijdenbos A., Evans A. Fast and robust parameter estimation for statistical partial volume models in brain MRI. Neuroimage 2004, 23:84-97.
25. Tramo M.J., Loftus W.C., Thomas C.E., Green R.L., Mott L.A., Gazzaniga M.S. Surface-area of human cerebral-cortex and its gross morphological subdivisions - in-vivo measurements in monozygotic twins suggest differential hemisphere effects of genetic-factors. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 1995, 7:292-302.
26. White T., Andreasen N.C., Nopoulos P. Brain volumes and surface morphology in monozygotic twins. Cereb. Cortex 2002, 12:486-493.
27. Yoon U., Fahim C., Perusse D., Evans A.C. Lateralized genetic and environmental influences on human brain morphology of 8-year-old twins. Neuroimage 2010, 53:1117-1125.
28. Zijdenbos A.P., Forghani R., Evans A.C. Automatic pipeline analysis of 3-D MRI data for clinical trials: application to multiple sclerosis. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 2002, 21:1280-1291.