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ArticleNeuroImage. Clinical2019

Spatial correlations exploitation based on nonlocal voxel-wise GWAS for biomarker detection of AD.

Meiyan Huang, Chunyan Deng, Yuwei Yu, Tao Lian, Wei Yang, Qianjin Feng, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

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Article in NeuroImage. Clinical, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Meiyan HuangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Chunyan DengGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China.
Yuwei YuGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Tao LianGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Wei YangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Qianjin FengGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address: 1271992826@qq.com.
Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
Southern Medical University · CNCancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College · CN

Funding

Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative - SupplementU01AG024904 · NIA · NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE RES &EDUC · PI WEINER, MICHAEL W · 2004 to 2015
$121.0M
NIA NIH HHS U01 AG024904
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Potential biomarker detection is a crucial area of study for the prediction, diagnosis, and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The voxelwise genome-wide association study (vGWAS) is widely used in imaging genomics studies that is usually applied to the detection of AD biomarkers in both imaging and genetic data. However, performing vGWAS remains a challenge because of the computational complexity of the technique and our ignorance of the spatial correlations within the imaging data. In this paper, we propose a novel method based on the exploitation of spatial correlations that may help to detect potential AD biomarkers using a fast vGWAS. To incorporate spatial correlations, we applied a nonlocal method that supposed that a given voxel could be represented by weighting the sum of the other voxels. Three commonly used weighting methods were adopted to calculate the weights among different voxels in this study. Then, a fast vGWAS approach was used to assess the association between the image and the genetic data. The proposed method was estimated using both simulated and real data. In the simulation studies, we designed a set of experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of the nonlocal method for incorporating spatial correlations in vGWAS. The experiments showed that incorporating spatial correlations by the nonlocal method could improve the detecting accuracy of AD biomarkers. For real data, we successfully identified three genes, namely, ANK3, MEIS2, and TLR4, which have significant associations with mental retardation, learning disabilities and age according to previous research. These genes have profound impacts on AD or other neurodegenerative diseases. Our results indicated that our method might be an effective and valuable tool for detecting potential biomarkers of AD.

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AgedAged, 80 and overAlzheimer DiseaseDatabases, FactualFemaleGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleAD biomarkerImaging genomics studiesNonlocal methodSpatial correlationsvGWAS

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