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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Machine learning shows association between genetic variability in

Michelle L Krishnan, Zi Wang, Paul Aljabar, Gareth Ball, Ghazala Mirza, Alka Saxena, Serena J Counsell, Joseph V Hajnal, Giovanni Montana, A David Edwards

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michelle L KrishnanCentre for the Developing Brain, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, United Kingdom.
Zi WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, United Kingdom.
Paul AljabarCentre for the Developing Brain, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, United Kingdom.
Gareth BallCentre for the Developing Brain, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, United Kingdom.
Ghazala MirzaGenomics Core Facility, National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's and St. Thomas' National Health Service Foundation Trust, London SE1 9RT, United Kingdom.
Alka SaxenaGenomics Core Facility, National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's and St. Thomas' National Health Service Foundation Trust, London SE1 9RT, United Kingdom.
Serena J CounsellCentre for the Developing Brain, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, United Kingdom.
Joseph V HajnalCentre for the Developing Brain, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, United Kingdom.
Giovanni MontanaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, United Kingdom.
A David EdwardsCentre for the Developing Brain, King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, United Kingdom; ad.edwards@kcl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-4801-7066
St Thomas' Hospital · GBNational Health Service · GB

Funding

Department of Health RP-PG-0707-10154Medical Research Council MR/J014311/1Medical Research Council MR/K006355/1Medical Research Council MR/N026063/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Preterm infants show abnormal structural and functional brain development, and have a high risk of long-term neurocognitive problems. The molecular and cellular mechanisms involved are poorly understood, but novel methods now make it possible to address them by examining the relationship between common genetic variability and brain endophenotype. We addressed the hypothesis that variability in the Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor (PPAR) pathway would be related to brain development. We employed machine learning in an unsupervised, unbiased, combined analysis of whole-brain diffusion tractography together with genomewide, single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based genotypes from a cohort of 272 preterm infants, using Sparse Reduced Rank Regression (sRRR) and correcting for ethnicity and age at birth and imaging. Empirical selection frequencies for SNPs associated with cerebral connectivity ranged from 0.663 to zero, with multiple highly selected SNPs mapping to genes for

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ConnectomeDiffusion Tensor ImagingInfant, PrematureMachine LearningPolymorphism, Single NucleotideBrainFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornIntegrin alpha6MalePPAR gammaRNA-Binding ProteinsFXR1 protein, humanIntegrin alpha6ITGA6 protein, humanPPAR gammaRNA-Binding Proteinsbrain developmentmachine learningmagnetic resonance imagingPPARGpreterm

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PMID29229843
PMCPMC5748164
OpenAlexW2774857749

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