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TITLE
Heritability of White Matter Fiber Tract Shapes: A HARDI Study of 198 Twins.
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.
DATE PUBLISHED
2011
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PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
entrez 2014/10/28 06:00
pubmed 2011/01/01 00:00
medline 2011/01/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Jin Y Jin Yan Y Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Shi Y Shi Yonggang Y fMRI Laboratory, University of Queensland, Brisbane St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
Joshi SH Joshi Shantanu H SH Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, QLD 4029, Australia.
Jahanshad N Jahanshad Neda N
Zhan L Zhan Liang L
de Zubicaray GI de Zubicaray Greig I GI
McMahon KL McMahon Katie L KL
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
Wright MJ Wright Margaret J MJ
Toga AW Toga Arthur W AW
Thompson PM Thompson Paul M PM
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VOLUME: 2011
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TITLE: Multimodal brain image analysis : first international workshop, MBIA 2011, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2011, Toronto, Canada, September 18, 2011 : proceedings / Tianming Liu ... [et al.], (eds.)
ISOABBREVIATION: Multimodal Brain Image Anal (2011)
YEAR: 2011
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MEDLINETA: Multimodal Brain Image Anal (2011)
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R01 HD050735 NICHD NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
KEYWORD
Clustering
Curve Matching
Fiber Alignment
HARDI
Heritability
Image Registration
Tractography
White Matter Probabilistic Atlas
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