Population clustering of structural brain aging and its association with brain development

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Contributors

  • Haojing Duan - , Fudan University (Author)
  • Runye Shi - , Fudan University (Author)
  • Jujiao Kang - , Fudan University (Author)
  • Tobias Banaschewski - , Heidelberg University  (Author)
  • Arun L.W. Bokde - , Trinity College Dublin (Author)
  • Christian Büchel - , University of Hamburg (Author)
  • Sylvane Desrivières - , King's College London (KCL) (Author)
  • Herta Flor - , Heidelberg University , University of Mannheim (Author)
  • Antoine Grigis - , Université Paris-Saclay (Author)
  • Hugh Garavan - , University of Vermont (Author)
  • Penny A. Gowland - , University of Nottingham (Author)
  • Andreas Heinz - , Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (Author)
  • Rüdiger Brühl - , National Metrology Institute of Germany (PTB) (Author)
  • Jean Luc Martinot - , École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (Author)
  • Marie Laure Paillère Martinot - , École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, Public Assistance - Paris Hospitals (Author)
  • Eric Artiges - , École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, EPS Barthélémy Durand (Author)
  • Frauke Nees - , Heidelberg University , Kiel University (Author)
  • Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos - , Université Paris-Saclay (Author)
  • Luise Poustka - , University of Göttingen (Author)
  • Sarah Hohmann - , Heidelberg University  (Author)
  • Nathalie Nathalie Holz - , Heidelberg University  (Author)
  • Juliane Fröhner - , Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Neuroimaging Center (Author)
  • Michael N. Smolka - , Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Neuroimaging Center (Author)
  • Nilakshi Vaidya - , Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (Author)
  • Henrik Walter - , Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (Author)
  • Robert Whelan - , Trinity College Dublin (Author)
  • Gunter Schumann - , Fudan University, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Author)
  • Xiaolei Lin - , Fudan University (Author)
  • Jianfeng Feng - , Fudan University, University of Warwick (Author)

Abstract

Structural brain aging has demonstrated strong inter-individual heterogeneity and mirroring patterns with brain development. However, due to the lack of large-scale longitudinal neuroimaging studies, most of the existing research focused on the cross-sectional changes of brain aging. In this investigation, we present a data-driven approach that incorporate both cross-sectional changes and longitudinal trajectories of structural brain aging and identified two brain aging patterns among 37,013 healthy participants from UK Biobank. Participants with accelerated brain aging also demonstrated accelerated biological aging, cognitive decline and increased genetic susceptibilities to major neuropsychiatric disorders. Further, by integrating longitudinal neuroimaging studies from a multi-center adolescent cohort, we validated the 'last in, first out' mirroring hypothesis and identified brain regions with manifested mirroring patterns between brain aging and brain development. Genomic analyses revealed risk loci and genes contributing to accelerated brain aging and delayed brain development, providing molecular basis for elucidating the biological mechanisms underlying brain aging and related disorders.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article numberRP94970
JournaleLife
Volume13
Publication statusPublished - 18 Oct 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMedCentral PMC11488854
Scopus 85206795032
ORCID /0000-0002-8493-6396/work/175758523
ORCID /0000-0001-5398-5569/work/175768364

Keywords

Keywords

  • adolescence, genetics, genomics, human, longitudinal analysis, MRI, neuroscience, structural brain aging