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ArticleBiological psychiatry2020

Schizotypy-Related Magnetization of Cortex in Healthy Adolescence Is Colocated With Expression of Schizophrenia-Related Genes.

Rafael Romero-Garcia, Jakob Seidlitz, Kirstie J Whitaker, Sarah E Morgan, Peter Fonagy, Raymond J Dolan, Peter B Jones, Ian M Goodyer, John Suckling, NSPN Consortium and 2 more

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Article in Biological psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Rafael Romero-GarciaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Electronic address: rr480@cam.ac.uk.
Jakob SeidlitzDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Kirstie J WhitakerDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom.
Sarah E MorganDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Peter FonagyResearch Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, London, United Kingdom.
Raymond J DolanMax Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Peter B JonesDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Huntingdon, United Kingdom.
Ian M GoodyerDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Huntingdon, United Kingdom.
John SucklingDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
NSPN Consortium
Petra E VértesDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom; School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Edward T BullmoreDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Huntingdon, United Kingdom.
University of Cambridge · GBQueen Mary University of London · GBWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K020706/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundGenetic risk is thought to drive clinical variation on a spectrum of schizophrenia-like traits, but the underlying changes in brain structure that mechanistically link genomic variation to schizotypal experience and behavior are unclear.

methodsWe assessed schizotypy using a self-reported questionnaire and measured magnetization transfer as a putative microstructural magnetic resonance imaging marker of intracortical myelination in 68 brain regions in 248 healthy young people (14-25 years of age). We used normative adult brain gene expression data and partial least squares analysis to find the weighted gene expression pattern that was most colocated with the cortical map of schizotypy-related magnetization.

resultsMagnetization was significantly correlated with schizotypy in the bilateral posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus (and for disorganized schizotypy, also in medial prefrontal cortex; all false discovery rate-corrected ps < .05), which are regions of the default mode network specialized for social and memory functions. The genes most positively weighted on the whole-genome expression map colocated with schizotypy-related magnetization were enriched for genes that were significantly downregulated in two prior case-control histological studies of brain gene expression in schizophrenia. Conversely, the most negatively weighted genes were enriched for genes that were transcriptionally upregulated in schizophrenia. Positively weighted (downregulated) genes were enriched for neuronal, specifically interneuronal, affiliations and coded a network of proteins comprising a few highly interactive "hubs" such as parvalbumin and calmodulin.

conclusionsMicrostructural magnetic resonance imaging maps of intracortical magnetization can be linked to both the behavioral traits of schizotypy and prior histological data on dysregulated gene expression in schizophrenia.

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SchizophreniaSchizotypal Personality DisorderAdolescentAdultBrainBrain MappingHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingAdolescenceAllen Human Brain AtlasDevelopmentFast-spiking GABAergic interneuronsMultiparameter MRI mappingMyelinationSchizophrenia

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