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. 2024 Jan 15;95(2):147-160.
doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.08.018. Epub 2023 Sep 3.

Beyond the Global Brain Differences: Intraindividual Variability Differences in 1q21.1 Distal and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 Deletion Carriers

Rune Boen  1 Tobias Kaufmann  2 Dennis van der Meer  3 Oleksandr Frei  4 Ingrid Agartz  5 David Ames  6 Micael Andersson  7 Nicola J Armstrong  8 Eric Artiges  9 Joshua R Atkins  10 Jochen Bauer  11 Francesco Benedetti  12 Dorret I Boomsma  13 Henry Brodaty  14 Katharina Brosch  15 Randy L Buckner  16 Murray J Cairns  17 Vince Calhoun  18 Svenja Caspers  19 Sven Cichon  20 Aiden P Corvin  21 Benedicto Crespo-Facorro  22 Udo Dannlowski  23 Friederike S David  24 Eco J C de Geus  13 Greig I de Zubicaray  25 Sylvane Desrivières  26 Joanne L Doherty  27 Gary Donohoe  28 Stefan Ehrlich  29 Else Eising  30 Thomas Espeseth  31 Simon E Fisher  32 Andreas J Forstner  33 Lidia Fortaner-Uyà  12 Vincent Frouin  34 Masaki Fukunaga  35 Tian Ge  36 David C Glahn  37 Janik Goltermann  23 Hans J Grabe  38 Melissa J Green  39 Nynke A Groenewold  40 Dominik Grotegerd  23 Gøril Rolfseng Grøntvedt  41 Tim Hahn  23 Ryota Hashimoto  42 Jayne Y Hehir-Kwa  43 Frans A Henskens  44 Avram J Holmes  45 Asta K Håberg  46 Jan Haavik  47 Sebastien Jacquemont  48 Andreas Jansen  49 Christiane Jockwitz  19 Erik G Jönsson  50 Masataka Kikuchi  51 Tilo Kircher  15 Kuldeep Kumar  52 Stephanie Le Hellard  53 Costin Leu  54 David E Linden  55 Jingyu Liu  56 Robert Loughnan  57 Karen A Mather  14 Katie L McMahon  58 Allan F McRae  59 Sarah E Medland  60 Susanne Meinert  61 Clara A Moreau  62 Derek W Morris  63 Bryan J Mowry  64 Thomas W Mühleisen  65 Igor Nenadić  15 Markus M Nöthen  24 Lars Nyberg  66 Roel A Ophoff  67 Michael J Owen  68 Christos Pantelis  69 Marco Paolini  12 Tomas Paus  70 Zdenka Pausova  71 Karin Persson  72 Yann Quidé  73 Tiago Reis Marques  74 Perminder S Sachdev  75 Sigrid B Sando  41 Ulrich Schall  76 Rodney J Scott  77 Geir Selbæk  78 Elena Shumskaya  79 Ana I Silva  80 Sanjay M Sisodiya  81 Frederike Stein  15 Dan J Stein  82 Benjamin Straube  15 Fabian Streit  83 Lachlan T Strike  84 Alexander Teumer  85 Lea Teutenberg  15 Anbupalam Thalamuthu  14 Paul A Tooney  86 Diana Tordesillas-Gutierrez  87 Julian N Trollor  88 Dennis van 't Ent  13 Marianne B M van den Bree  89 Neeltje E M van Haren  90 Javier Vázquez-Bourgon  91 Henry Völzke  92 Wei Wen  14 Katharina Wittfeld  38 Christopher R K Ching  62 Lars T Westlye  93 Paul M Thompson  62 Carrie E Bearden  94 Kaja K Selmer  95 Dag Alnæs  96 Ole A Andreassen  97 Ida E Sønderby  98 ENIGMA-CNV Working Group
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Beyond the Global Brain Differences: Intraindividual Variability Differences in 1q21.1 Distal and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 Deletion Carriers

Rune Boen et al. Biol Psychiatry. .

Abstract

Background: Carriers of the 1q21.1 distal and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 copy number variants exhibit regional and global brain differences compared with noncarriers. However, interpreting regional differences is challenging if a global difference drives the regional brain differences. Intraindividual variability measures can be used to test for regional differences beyond global differences in brain structure.

Methods: Magnetic resonance imaging data were used to obtain regional brain values for 1q21.1 distal deletion (n = 30) and duplication (n = 27) and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 deletion (n = 170) and duplication (n = 243) carriers and matched noncarriers (n = 2350). Regional intra-deviation scores, i.e., the standardized difference between an individual's regional difference and global difference, were used to test for regional differences that diverge from the global difference.

Results: For the 1q21.1 distal deletion carriers, cortical surface area for regions in the medial visual cortex, posterior cingulate, and temporal pole differed less and regions in the prefrontal and superior temporal cortex differed more than the global difference in cortical surface area. For the 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 deletion carriers, cortical thickness in regions in the medial visual cortex, auditory cortex, and temporal pole differed less and the prefrontal and somatosensory cortex differed more than the global difference in cortical thickness.

Conclusions: We find evidence for regional effects beyond differences in global brain measures in 1q21.1 distal and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 copy number variants. The results provide new insight into brain profiling of the 1q21.1 distal and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 copy number variants, with the potential to increase understanding of the mechanisms involved in altered neurodevelopment.

Keywords: 15q11.2 BP1-BP2; 1q21.1 distal; Brain structure; Copy number variants; Intraindividual variability; Magnetic resonance imaging.

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Conflict of interest statement

OAA has received speaker’s honorarium from Lundbeck, Janssen, and Sunovion and is a consultant to Coretechs.ai. TRM reports personal fees from Pfizer, Lundbeck, Astellas, Janssen, and Angelini outside the submitted work. He is an employee and shareholder of Pasithea Therapeutics. CRKC has received partial research support from Biogen for work unrelated to the topic of this article (principal investigator, PMT). PMT has received partial research support from Biogen for work unrelated to the topic of this article. MBMvdB and MJO report grants from Takeda Pharmaceuticals outside the submitted work. MJO reports a grant from Akrivia Health outside the submitted work. HJG has received travel grants and speaker’s honoraria from Fresenius Medical Care, Neuraxpharm, Servier, and Janssen as well as research funding from Fresenius Medical Care. GS has received honoraria for participating at advisory board meetings from Roche and Biogen regarding new Alzheimer’s disease drugs. KKS has received consultant and speaker’s honoraria from Roche and OrionPharma, reimbursement of travel and accommodation costs at a meeting from Kolpharma, and sponsorships for arranging conferences from Desitin and Eisai AB. IG has received speaker’s honorarium from Lundbeck. MMN has received fees for membership in an advisory board from HMG Systems Engineering GmbH, for membership in the Medical-Scientific Editorial Office of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt, and for serving as a consultant for Everis Belgium in a project of the European Commission (REFORM/SC2020/029). MMN also receives salary payments from Life & Brain GmbH and holds shares in Life & Brain GmbH. All these concerned activities outside the submitted work. CP received honoraria for talks from Lundbeck, Australia Pty Ltd. outside the submitted work. DJS has received consultancy honoraria from Discovery Vitality, Johnson & Johnson, Kanna, L’Oreal, Lundbeck, Orion, Sanofi, Servier, Takeda and Vistagen. JH has received speaker’s honorarium from Medice and Takeda outside the submitted work. KP reports work with Novo Nordisk and Roche clinical trials outside the submitted work. All other authors report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Cortical surface area comparison between 1q21.1 distal deletion carriers and non-carriers.
A) Top panel shows z-scores - group differences in regional cortical surface area. Bottom panel shows RID-scores - group differences in regional cortical surface area that are scaled to the individual’s own global index. Non-carriers are represented by gray lines, and 1q21.1 distal deletion carriers are represented by black lines. Blue dots indicate significant differences. The insular cortex is included under frontal cortex for visualization purposes. B) Top panel displays the significant differences in Z-scores, and the bottom panel shows the significant differences in RID-scores. Blue-red diverging maps represent the effect size. C) Spatial distribution of all the mean differences in RID scores. Please note that all values are shown regardless of significance. Yellow-purple diverging maps represent the direction of the mean differences. Increased yellow intensity represents values that are less deviant than the overall global mean difference in cortical surface area, and increased purple intensity represents values that are more deviant than the overall global mean difference in cortical surface area. Z- and RID-scores are based on raw values adjusted for age, age2, sex, and intracranial volume on site harmonized data.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Cortical thickness comparison between 1q21.1 distal deletion carriers and non-carriers.
A) Top panel shows z-scores - group differences in regional cortical thickness. Bottom panel shows RID-scores - group differences in regional cortical thickness that are scaled to the individual’s own global index. Non-carriers are represented by gray lines, and 1q21.1 distal deletion carriers are represented by black lines. Blue dots indicate significant differences. The insular cortex is included under frontal cortex for visualization purposes. B) Top panel displays the significant differences in Z-scores, and the bottom panel shows the significant differences in RID-scores. Blue-red diverging maps represent the effect size. C) Spatial distribution of all the mean differences in RID scores. Please note that all values are shown regardless of significance. Yellow-purple diverging maps represent the direction of the mean differences. Increased yellow intensity represents values that are less deviant than the overall global mean difference in cortical thickness, and increased purple intensity represents values that are more deviant than the overall global mean difference in cortical thickness. Z- and RID-scores are based on raw values adjusted for age, age2, sex, and intracranial volume on site harmonized data.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Cortical surface area comparison between 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 deletion carriers and non-carriers.
A) Top panel shows z-scores - group differences in regional cortical surface area. Bottom panel shows RID-scores - group differences in regional cortical surface area that are scaled to the individual’s own global index. Non-carriers are represented by gray lines, and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 deletion carriers are represented by black lines. Blue dots indicate significant differences. The insular cortex is included under frontal cortex for visualization purposes. B) Top panel displays the significant differences in Z-scores, and the bottom panel shows the significant differences in RID-scores. Blue-red diverging maps represent the effect size. C) Spatial distribution of all the mean differences in RID scores. Please note that all values are shown regardless of significance. Yellow-purple diverging maps represent the direction of the mean differences. Increased yellow intensity represents values that are less deviant than the overall global mean difference in cortical surface area, and increased purple intensity represents values that are more deviant than the overall global mean difference in cortical surface area. Z- and RID-scores are based on raw values adjusted for age, age2, sex, and intracranial volume on site harmonized data.
Figure 4
Figure 4. Cortical thickness comparison between 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 deletion carriers and non-carriers.
A) Top panel shows z-scores - group differences in regional cortical thickness. Bottom panel shows RID-scores - group differences in regional cortical thickness that are scaled to the individual’s own global index. Non-carriers are represented by gray lines, and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 deletion carriers are represented by black lines. Blue dots indicate significant differences. The insular cortex is included under frontal cortex for visualization purposes. B) Top panel displays the significant differences in Z-scores, and the bottom panel shows the significant differences in RID-scores. Blue-red diverging maps represent the effect size. C) Spatial distribution of all the mean differences in RID scores. Please note that all values are shown regardless of significance. Yellow-purple diverging maps represent the direction of the mean differences. Increased yellow intensity represents values that are less deviant than the overall global mean difference in cortical thickness, and increased purple intensity represents values that are more deviant than the overall global mean difference in cortical thickness. Z- and RID-scores are based on raw values adjusted for age, age2, sex, and intracranial volume on site harmonized data.

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