The heritability of multi-modal connectivity in human brain activity

Patterns of intrinsic human brain activity exhibit a profile of functional connectivity that is associated with behaviour and cognitive performance, and deteriorates with disease. This paper investigates the relative importance of genetic factors and the common environment between twins in determini...

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Main Authors: Colclough, Giles L., Smith, Stephen M., Nichols, Tom E., Winkler, Anderson M., Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N., Glasser, Matthew F., Van Essen, David C., Woolrich, Mark W.
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Published: eLife Sciences Publications 2017
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author Colclough, Giles L.
Smith, Stephen M.
Nichols, Tom E.
Winkler, Anderson M.
Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N.
Glasser, Matthew F.
Van Essen, David C.
Woolrich, Mark W.
author_facet Colclough, Giles L.
Smith, Stephen M.
Nichols, Tom E.
Winkler, Anderson M.
Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N.
Glasser, Matthew F.
Van Essen, David C.
Woolrich, Mark W.
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description Patterns of intrinsic human brain activity exhibit a profile of functional connectivity that is associated with behaviour and cognitive performance, and deteriorates with disease. This paper investigates the relative importance of genetic factors and the common environment between twins in determining this functional connectivity profile. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on 820 subjects from the Human Connectome Project, and magnetoencephalographic (MEG) recordings from a subset, the heritability of connectivity between 39 cortical regions was estimated. On average over all connections, genes account for about 15% of the observed variance in fMRI connectivity (and about 10% in alpha-band and 20% in beta-band oscillatory power synchronisation), which substantially exceeds the contribution from the environment shared between twins. Therefore, insofar as twins share a common upbringing, it appears that genes, rather than the developmental environment, play a dominant role in determining the coupling of neuronal activity.
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spelling nottingham-444642020-05-04T18:57:12Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44464/ The heritability of multi-modal connectivity in human brain activity Colclough, Giles L. Smith, Stephen M. Nichols, Tom E. Winkler, Anderson M. Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N. Glasser, Matthew F. Van Essen, David C. Woolrich, Mark W. Patterns of intrinsic human brain activity exhibit a profile of functional connectivity that is associated with behaviour and cognitive performance, and deteriorates with disease. This paper investigates the relative importance of genetic factors and the common environment between twins in determining this functional connectivity profile. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on 820 subjects from the Human Connectome Project, and magnetoencephalographic (MEG) recordings from a subset, the heritability of connectivity between 39 cortical regions was estimated. On average over all connections, genes account for about 15% of the observed variance in fMRI connectivity (and about 10% in alpha-band and 20% in beta-band oscillatory power synchronisation), which substantially exceeds the contribution from the environment shared between twins. Therefore, insofar as twins share a common upbringing, it appears that genes, rather than the developmental environment, play a dominant role in determining the coupling of neuronal activity. eLife Sciences Publications 2017-07-26 Article PeerReviewed Colclough, Giles L., Smith, Stephen M., Nichols, Tom E., Winkler, Anderson M., Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N., Glasser, Matthew F., Van Essen, David C. and Woolrich, Mark W. (2017) The heritability of multi-modal connectivity in human brain activity. eLife, 6 . e20178. ISSN 2050-084X https://elifesciences.org/articles/20178 doi:10.7554/eLife.20178 doi:10.7554/eLife.20178
spellingShingle Colclough, Giles L.
Smith, Stephen M.
Nichols, Tom E.
Winkler, Anderson M.
Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N.
Glasser, Matthew F.
Van Essen, David C.
Woolrich, Mark W.
The heritability of multi-modal connectivity in human brain activity
title The heritability of multi-modal connectivity in human brain activity
title_full The heritability of multi-modal connectivity in human brain activity
title_fullStr The heritability of multi-modal connectivity in human brain activity
title_full_unstemmed The heritability of multi-modal connectivity in human brain activity
title_short The heritability of multi-modal connectivity in human brain activity
title_sort heritability of multi-modal connectivity in human brain activity
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44464/
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