Heritability of white matter fiber tract shapes: A HARDI study of 198 twins

Yan Jin, Yonggang Shi, Shantanu H. Joshi, Neda Jahanshad, Liang Zhan, Greig I. De Zubicaray, Katie L. McMahon, Nicholas G. Martin, Margaret J. Wright, Arthur W. Toga, Paul M. Thompson

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Abstract

Genetic analysis of diffusion tensor images (DTI) shows great promise in revealing specific genetic variants that affect brain integrity and connectivity. Most genetic studies of DTI analyze voxel-based diffusivity indices in the image space (such as 3D maps of fractional anisotropy) and overlook tract geometry. Here we propose an automated workflow to cluster fibers using a white matter probabilistic atlas and perform genetic analysis on the shape characteristics of fiber tracts. We apply our approach to large study of 4-Tesla high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) data from 198 healthy, young adult twins (age: 20-30). Illustrative results show heritability for the shapes of several major tracts, as color-coded maps.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMultimodal Brain Image Analysis - First International Workshop, MBIA 2011, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2011, Proceedings
Pages35-43
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event1st International Workshop on Multimodal Brain Image Analysis, MBIA 2011, in Conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2011 - Toronto, ON, Canada
Duration: Sep 18 2011Sep 18 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7012 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other1st International Workshop on Multimodal Brain Image Analysis, MBIA 2011, in Conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2011
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto, ON
Period9/18/119/18/11

Keywords

  • Clustering
  • Curve Matching
  • Fiber Alignment
  • HARDI
  • Heritability
  • Image Registration
  • Tractography
  • White Matter Probabilistic Atlas

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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