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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2024

NeuroimaGene: an R package for assessing the neurological correlates of genetically regulated gene expression.

Xavier Bledsoe, Eric R Gamazon

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Xavier BledsoeMedical Scientist Training Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. xavier.bledsoe@vanderbilt.edu.
Eric R GamazonVanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

Funding

ECHO Laboratory Core at Vanderbilt for Integrated Sample Biobanking and ProcessingU24OD035523 · OD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI Suman Ranjan Das, NATASHA Bassam HALASA · 2023 to 2026
$32.8M
MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007347 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER S. · 1985 to 2023
$26.3M
Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM152284 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Christopher S. Williams · 2024 to 2026
$4.8M
Haplotype-aware models of gene and isoform expression with application to genetic studies of disease in diverse populationsR01GM140287 · NIGMS · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI GAMAZON, ERIC R, MOHAMMADI, PEJMAN · 2021 to 2024
$2.8M
Functional Genomics: A Phenome-wide SurveyR35HG010718 · NHGRI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI GAMAZON, ERIC R · 2019 to 2023
$2.2M
Advancing Multi-Omics and Electronic Health Records Computational MethodologiesR01HG011138 · NHGRI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI GAMAZON, ERIC R · 2020 to 2024
$1.6M
Advancing drug repositioning and development for Alzheimer's Disease using functional genomics and computational phenomicsR56AG068026 · NIA · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI GAMAZON, ERIC R · 2021 to 2022
$1.5M
Genomic Innovator Award R35HG010718NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG011138NHGRI NIH HHS R35 HG010718NIA NIH HHS R56 AG068026NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM140287NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007347NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM152284NIH HHS U24 OD035523NIH/NHGRI R01HG011138NIH/NIA R56AG068026NIH/NIGMS R01GM140287NIH Office of the Director U24OD035523
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Abstract

backgroundWe present the NeuroimaGene resource as an R package designed to assist researchers in identifying genes and neurologic features relevant to psychiatric and neurological health. While recent studies have identified hundreds of genes as potential components of pathophysiology in neurologic and psychiatric disease, interpreting the physiological consequences of this variation is challenging. The integration of neuroimaging data with molecular findings is a step toward addressing this challenge. In addition to sharing associations with both molecular variation and clinical phenotypes, neuroimaging features are intrinsically informative of cognitive processes. NeuroimaGene provides a tool to understand how disease-associated genes relate to the intermediate structure of the brain.

resultsWe created NeuroimaGene, a user-friendly, open access R package now available for public use. Its primary function is to identify neuroimaging derived brain features that are impacted by genetically regulated expression of user-provided genes or gene sets. This resource can be used to (1) characterize individual genes or gene sets as relevant to the structure and function of the brain, (2) identify the region(s) of the brain or body in which expression of target gene(s) is neurologically relevant, (3) impute the brain features most impacted by user-defined gene sets such as those produced by cohort level gene association studies, and (4) generate publication level, modifiable visual plots of significant findings. We demonstrate the utility of the resource by identifying neurologic correlates of stroke-associated genes derived from pre-existing analyses.

conclusionsIntegrating neurologic data as an intermediate phenotype in the pathway from genes to brain-based diagnostic phenotypes increases the interpretability of molecular studies and enriches our understanding of disease pathophysiology. The NeuroimaGene R package is designed to assist in this process and is publicly available for use.

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BrainNeuroimagingSoftwareGene Expression RegulationHumansGenomicsNeuroimagingNeurologyPsychiatryTranscriptomics

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