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ArticleNeurology. Genetics2021

Revealing the Timeline of Structural MRI Changes in Premanifest to Manifest Huntington Disease.

Peter A Wijeratne, Sara Garbarino, Sarah Gregory, Eileanoir B Johnson, Rachael I Scahill, Jane S Paulsen, Sarah J Tabrizi, Marco Lorenzi, Daniel C Alexander

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Article in Neurology. Genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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9 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Peter A WijeratneCentre for Medical Image Computing (P.A.W., D.C.A.), Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street; Huntington's Disease Research Centre (P.A.W., S. Gregory, E.B.J., R.I.S., S.J.T.), Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Matematica (S. Garbarino), UNIGE, DIMA, Genova, Italy; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (J.S.P.), Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa; and Université Côte d'Azur (M.L.), Inria, Epione Research Project, Valbonne, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4885-6241
Sara GarbarinoCentre for Medical Image Computing (P.A.W., D.C.A.), Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street; Huntington's Disease Research Centre (P.A.W., S. Gregory, E.B.J., R.I.S., S.J.T.), Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Matematica (S. Garbarino), UNIGE, DIMA, Genova, Italy; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (J.S.P.), Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa; and Université Côte d'Azur (M.L.), Inria, Epione Research Project, Valbonne, France.ORCID 0000-0002-3583-3630
Sarah GregoryCentre for Medical Image Computing (P.A.W., D.C.A.), Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street; Huntington's Disease Research Centre (P.A.W., S. Gregory, E.B.J., R.I.S., S.J.T.), Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Matematica (S. Garbarino), UNIGE, DIMA, Genova, Italy; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (J.S.P.), Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa; and Université Côte d'Azur (M.L.), Inria, Epione Research Project, Valbonne, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9864-8240
Eileanoir B JohnsonCentre for Medical Image Computing (P.A.W., D.C.A.), Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street; Huntington's Disease Research Centre (P.A.W., S. Gregory, E.B.J., R.I.S., S.J.T.), Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Matematica (S. Garbarino), UNIGE, DIMA, Genova, Italy; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (J.S.P.), Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa; and Université Côte d'Azur (M.L.), Inria, Epione Research Project, Valbonne, France.ORCID 0000-0002-5271-0747
Rachael I ScahillCentre for Medical Image Computing (P.A.W., D.C.A.), Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street; Huntington's Disease Research Centre (P.A.W., S. Gregory, E.B.J., R.I.S., S.J.T.), Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Matematica (S. Garbarino), UNIGE, DIMA, Genova, Italy; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (J.S.P.), Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa; and Université Côte d'Azur (M.L.), Inria, Epione Research Project, Valbonne, France.ORCID 0000-0002-1832-106X
Jane S PaulsenCentre for Medical Image Computing (P.A.W., D.C.A.), Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street; Huntington's Disease Research Centre (P.A.W., S. Gregory, E.B.J., R.I.S., S.J.T.), Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Matematica (S. Garbarino), UNIGE, DIMA, Genova, Italy; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (J.S.P.), Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa; and Université Côte d'Azur (M.L.), Inria, Epione Research Project, Valbonne, France.ORCID 0000-0002-6536-9138
Sarah J TabriziCentre for Medical Image Computing (P.A.W., D.C.A.), Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street; Huntington's Disease Research Centre (P.A.W., S. Gregory, E.B.J., R.I.S., S.J.T.), Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Matematica (S. Garbarino), UNIGE, DIMA, Genova, Italy; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (J.S.P.), Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa; and Université Côte d'Azur (M.L.), Inria, Epione Research Project, Valbonne, France.ORCID 0000-0003-2716-2045
Marco LorenziCentre for Medical Image Computing (P.A.W., D.C.A.), Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street; Huntington's Disease Research Centre (P.A.W., S. Gregory, E.B.J., R.I.S., S.J.T.), Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Matematica (S. Garbarino), UNIGE, DIMA, Genova, Italy; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (J.S.P.), Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa; and Université Côte d'Azur (M.L.), Inria, Epione Research Project, Valbonne, France.ORCID 0000-0003-0521-2881
Daniel C AlexanderCentre for Medical Image Computing (P.A.W., D.C.A.), Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street; Huntington's Disease Research Centre (P.A.W., S. Gregory, E.B.J., R.I.S., S.J.T.), Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Matematica (S. Garbarino), UNIGE, DIMA, Genova, Italy; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (J.S.P.), Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa; and Université Côte d'Azur (M.L.), Inria, Epione Research Project, Valbonne, France.ORCID 0000-0003-2439-350X
University of Iowa · US

Funding

Preparing for preventive clinical trials in Huntington's diseaseU01NS105509 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI PAULSEN, JANE S · 2020 to 2025
$2.5M
Statistical disease modeling and clinimetrics to prepare for preventive trials in huntington diseaseU01NS103475 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI PAULSEN, JANE S · 2020 to 2022
$1.7M
Medical Research Council MR/T027770/1NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS103475NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS105509
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

objectivesLongitudinal measurements of brain atrophy using structural MRI (sMRI) can provide powerful markers for tracking disease progression in neurodegenerative diseases. In this study, we use a disease progression model to learn individual-level disease times and hence reveal a new timeline of sMRI changes in Huntington disease (HD).

methodsWe use data from the 2 largest cohort imaging studies in HD-284 participants from TRACK-HD (100 control, 104 premanifest, and 80 manifest) and 159 participants from PREDICT-HD (36 control and 128 premanifest)-to train and test the model. We longitudinally register T1-weighted sMRI scans from 3 consecutive time points to reduce intraindividual variability and calculate regional brain volumes using an automated segmentation tool with rigorous manual quality control.

resultsOur model reveals, for the first time, the relative magnitude and timescale of subcortical and cortical atrophy changes in HD. We find that the largest (∼20% average change in magnitude) and earliest (∼2 years before average abnormality) changes occur in the subcortex (pallidum, putamen, and caudate), followed by a cascade of changes across other subcortical and cortical regions over a period of ∼11 years. We also show that sMRI, when combined with our disease progression model, provides improved prediction of onset over the current best method (root mean square error = 4.5 years and maximum error = 7.9 years vs root mean square error = 6.6 years and maximum error = 18.2 years). DISCUSSION: Our findings support the use of disease progression modeling to reveal new information from sMRI, which can potentially inform imaging marker selection for clinical trials.

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