Temporo-basal sulcal connections: a manual annotation protocol and an investigation of sexual dimorphism and heritability
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Abstract
The temporo-basal region of the human brain is composed of the collateral, the occipito-temporal, and the rhinal sulci. We manually rated (using a novel protocol) the connections between rhinal/collateral (RS-CS), collateral/occipito-temporal (CS-OTS) and rhinal/occipito-temporal (RS-OTS) sulci, using the MRI of nearly 3400 individuals including around 1000 twins. We reported both the associations between sulcal polymorphisms as well with a wide range of demographics (e.g. age, sex, handedness). Finally, we also estimated the heritability, and the genetic correlation between sulcal connections. We reported the frequency of the sulcal connections in the general population, which were hemisphere dependent. We found a sexual dimorphism of the connections, especially marked in the right hemisphere, with a CS-OTS connection more frequent in females (approximately 35-40% versus 20-25% in males) and an RS-CS connection more common in males (approximately 40-45% versus 25-30% in females). We confirmed associations between sulcal connections and characteristics of incomplete hippocampal inversion (IHI). We estimated the broad sense heritability to be 0.28-0.45 for RS-CS and CS-OTS connections, with hints of dominant contribution for the RS-CS connection. The connections appeared to share some of their genetic causing factors as indicated by strong genetic correlations. Heritability appeared much smaller for the (rarer) RS-OTS connection.
Details
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1459-1478 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Brain structure & function |
Volume | 228 |
Issue number | 6 |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2023 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
Scopus | 85163018132 |
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ORCID | /0000-0001-5398-5569/work/150329568 |
ORCID | /0000-0002-8493-6396/work/150330267 |
Keywords
Keywords
- Male, Female, Humans, Sex Characteristics, Temporal Lobe/diagnostic imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Hippocampus, Functional Laterality/genetics