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26745144
TITLE
Head Motion and Inattention/Hyperactivity Share Common Genetic Influences: Implications for fMRI Studies of ADHD.
ABSTRACT
Head motion (HM) is a well known confound in analyses of functional MRI (fMRI) data. Neuroimaging researchers therefore typically treat HM as a nuisance covariate in their analyses. Even so, it is possible that HM shares a common genetic influence with the trait of interest. Here we investigate the extent to which this relationship is due to shared genetic factors, using HM extracted from resting-state fMRI and maternal and self report measures of Inattention and Hyperactivity-Impulsivity from the Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD Symptoms and Normal Behaviour (SWAN) scales. Our sample consisted of healthy young adult twins (N = 627 (63% females) including 95 MZ and 144 DZ twin pairs, mean age 22, who had mother-reported SWAN; N = 725 (58% females) including 101 MZ and 156 DZ pairs, mean age 25, with self reported SWAN). This design enabled us to distinguish genetic from environmental factors in the association between head movement and ADHD scales. HM was moderately correlated with maternal reports of Inattention (r = 0.17, p-value = 7.4E-5) and Hyperactivity-Impulsivity (r = 0.16, p-value = 2.9E-4), and these associations were mainly due to pleiotropic genetic factors with genetic correlations [95% CIs] of rg = 0.24 [0.02, 0.43] and rg = 0.23 [0.07, 0.39]. Correlations between self-reports and HM were not significant, due largely to increased measurement error. These results indicate that treating HM as a nuisance covariate in neuroimaging studies of ADHD will likely reduce power to detect between-group effects, as the implicit assumption of independence between HM and Inattention or Hyperactivity-Impulsivity is not warranted. The implications of this finding are problematic for fMRI studies of ADHD, as failing to apply HM correction is known to increase the likelihood of false positives. We discuss two ways to circumvent this problem: censoring the motion contaminated frames of the RS-fMRI scan or explicitly modeling the relationship between HM and Inattention or Hyperactivity-Impulsivity.
DATE PUBLISHED
2016
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2015/06/25
accepted 2015/12/15
entrez 2016/01/09 06:00
pubmed 2016/01/09 06:00
medline 2016/07/01 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Couvy-Duchesne B Couvy-Duchesne Baptiste B Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Ebejer JL Ebejer Jane L JL Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Gillespie NA Gillespie Nathan A NA Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Duffy DL Duffy David L DL QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Hickie IB Hickie Ian B IB Brain & Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Thompson PM Thompson Paul M PM Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, California, United States of America.
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
de Zubicaray GI de Zubicaray Greig I GI School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
McMahon KL McMahon Katie L KL Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Medland SE Medland Sarah E SE QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Wright MJ Wright Margaret J MJ QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
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JOURNAL
VOLUME: 11
ISSUE: 1
TITLE: PloS one
ISOABBREVIATION: PLoS One
YEAR: 2016
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CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1932-6203
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: PLoS One
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 1932-6203
NLMUNIQUEID: 101285081
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
R01 AG040060 NIA NIH HHS United States
R01 HD050735 NICHD NIH HHS United States
U54 EB020403 NIBIB NIH HHS United States
R01HD050735 NICHD NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
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MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity physiopathology
Brain physiopathology
Diseases in Twins physiopathology
Female physiopathology
Head Movements physiopathology
Humans physiopathology
Hyperkinesis physiopathology
Impulsive Behavior physiopathology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging statistics & numerical data
Male statistics & numerical data
Mothers statistics & numerical data
Neuroimaging statistics & numerical data
Phenotype statistics & numerical data
Self Report statistics & numerical data
Twins, Dizygotic statistics & numerical data
Twins, Monozygotic statistics & numerical data
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