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ArticleNeuroImage2015

Fast and powerful heritability inference for family-based neuroimaging studies.

Habib Ganjgahi, Anderson M Winkler, David C Glahn, John Blangero, Peter Kochunov, Thomas E Nichols

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Article in NeuroImage, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Habib GanjgahiDepartment of Statistics, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Anderson M WinklerCentre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA.
David C GlahnDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA; Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA.
John BlangeroDepartment of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Peter KochunovMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Thomas E NicholsDepartment of Statistics, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; WMG, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Electronic address: t.e.nichols@warwick.ac.uk.

Funding

Training U54EB020403 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI THOMPSON, PAUL M · 2014 to 2018
$10.1M
Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping in Human PedigreesR37MH059490 · NIMH · TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI BLANGERO, JOHN · 2001 to 2010
$6.8M
SOLAR-Eclipse Computational Tools for Imaging GeneticsR01EB015611 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI KOCHUNOV, PETER V. · 2012 to 2024
$5.0M
Genetics of Brain Structure and FunctionR01MH078111 · NIMH · TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI BLANGERO, JOHN · 2006 to 2014
$4.5M
Genetics of Brain Structure and Function: Genome-Wide AssociationR01MH083824 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GLAHN, DAVID C · 2008 to 2013
$3.3M
QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING IN HUMAN PEDIGREESR01MH059490 · NIMH · SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI BLANGERO, JOHN · 1998 to 2000
$426k
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB015611NIBIB NIH HHS U54 EB020403NIBIB NIH HHS U54EB020403NIMH NIH HHS MH0708143NIMH NIH HHS MH078111NIMH NIH HHS MH083824NIMH NIH HHS MH59490NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH059490NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH078111NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH083824NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH059490Wellcome Trust 098369Wellcome Trust 100309
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heritability estimation has become an important tool for imaging genetics studies. The large number of voxel- and vertex-wise measurements in imaging genetics studies presents a challenge both in terms of computational intensity and the need to account for elevated false positive risk because of the multiple testing problem. There is a gap in existing tools, as standard neuroimaging software cannot estimate heritability, and yet standard quantitative genetics tools cannot provide essential neuroimaging inferences, like family-wise error corrected voxel-wise or cluster-wise P-values. Moreover, available heritability tools rely on P-values that can be inaccurate with usual parametric inference methods. In this work we develop fast estimation and inference procedures for voxel-wise heritability, drawing on recent methodological results that simplify heritability likelihood computations (Blangero et al., 2013). We review the family of score and Wald tests and propose novel inference methods based on explained sum of squares of an auxiliary linear model. To address problems with inaccuracies with the standard results used to find P-values, we propose four different permutation schemes to allow semi-parametric inference (parametric likelihood-based estimation, non-parametric sampling distribution). In total, we evaluate 5 different significance tests for heritability, with either asymptotic parametric or permutation-based P-value computations. We identify a number of tests that are both computationally efficient and powerful, making them ideal candidates for heritability studies in the massive data setting. We illustrate our method on fractional anisotropy measures in 859 subjects from the Genetics of Brain Structure study.

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GeneticsAlgorithmsAnisotropyBrainComputer SimulationDatabases, FactualDiffusion Tensor ImagingFamilyHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLinear ModelsNeuroimagingNeuropsychological TestsReproducibility of ResultsRisk AssessmentSoftwareHeritabilityMultiple testing problemPermutation test

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PMID25812717
PMCPMC4463976

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