io-port 05980236 Jin, Yan;
Shi, Yonggang;
Joshi, Shantanu H.;
Jahanshad, Neda;
Zhan, Liang;
de Zubicaray, Greig I.;
McMahon, Katie L.;
Martin, Nicholas G.;
Wright, Margaret J.;
Toga, Arthur W.;
Thompson, Paul M.
Heritability of white matter fiber tract shapes: A HARDI study of 198 twins. (English)
Liu, Tianming (ed.) et al., Multimodal brain image analysis. First international workshop, MBIA 2011, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2011, Toronto, Canada, September 18, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-24445-2/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7012, 35-43 (2011).
Summary: 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.
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