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Koran ME, Thornton-Wells TA, Jahanshad N, et al. Impact of family structure and common environment on heritability estimation for neuroimaging genetics studies using Sequential Oligogenic Linkage Analysis Routines. J Med Imaging (Bellingham). 2014;1(1):014005doi: 10.1117/1.JMI.1.1.014005.
Koran, M. E., Thornton-Wells, T. A., Jahanshad, N., Glahn, D. C., Thompson, P. M., Blangero, J., Nichols, T. E., Kochunov, P., & Landman, B. A. (2014). Impact of family structure and common environment on heritability estimation for neuroimaging genetics studies using Sequential Oligogenic Linkage Analysis Routines. Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.), 1(1), 014005. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.1.1.014005
Koran, Mary Ellen, et al. "Impact of family structure and common environment on heritability estimation for neuroimaging genetics studies using Sequential Oligogenic Linkage Analysis Routines." Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) vol. 1,1 (2014): 014005. doi: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.1.1.014005
Koran ME, Thornton-Wells TA, Jahanshad N, Glahn DC, Thompson PM, Blangero J, Nichols TE, Kochunov P, Landman BA. Impact of family structure and common environment on heritability estimation for neuroimaging genetics studies using Sequential Oligogenic Linkage Analysis Routines. J Med Imaging (Bellingham). 2014 Jun 27;1(1):014005. doi: 10.1117/1.JMI.1.1.014005. PMID: 25558465; PMCID: PMC4281883.
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J Med Imaging (Bellingham). 2014 Jun 27;1(1):014005. doi: 10.1117/1.JMI.1.1.014005.

Impact of family structure and common environment on heritability estimation for neuroimaging genetics studies using Sequential Oligogenic Linkage Analysis Routines.

Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.)

Mary Ellen Koran, Tricia A Thornton-Wells, Neda Jahanshad, David C Glahn, Paul M Thompson, John Blangero, Thomas E Nichols, Peter Kochunov, Bennett A Landman

Affiliations

  1. Vanderbilt University, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Nashville, Tennessee ; Vanderbilt University, Medical Scientist Training Program, Nashville, Tennessee.
  2. Vanderbilt University, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Nashville, Tennessee.
  3. University of Southern California, Institute of Neuroimaging and Informatics, Imaging Genetics Center, Los Angeles, California.
  4. Yale University, Psychiatry, New Haven, Connecticut.
  5. Texas Biomedical Research Institute, Department of Genetics, P.O. Box 760549, San Antonio, Texas.
  6. University of Warwick, Department of Statistics, Coventry, United Kingdom.
  7. University of Maryland, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
  8. Vanderbilt University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Nashville, Tennessee.

PMID: 25558465 PMCID: PMC4281883 DOI: 10.1117/1.JMI.1.1.014005

Abstract

Imaging genetics is an emerging methodological field that combines genetic information with medical imaging-derived metrics to understand how genetic factors impact observable phenotypes. In order for a trait to be a reasonable phenotype in an imaging genetics study, it must be heritable: at least some proportion of its variance must be due to genetic influences. The Sequential Oligogenic Linkage Analysis Routines (SOLAR) imaging genetics software can estimate the heritability of a trait in complex pedigrees. We investigate the ability of SOLAR to accurately estimate heritability and common environmental effects on simulated imaging phenotypes in various family structures. We found that heritability is reliably estimated with small family-based studies of 40 to 80 individuals, though subtle differences remain between the family structures. In an imaging application analysis, we found that with 80 subjects in any of the family structures, estimated heritability of white matter fractional anisotropy was biased by <10% for every region of interest. Results from these studies can be used when investigators are evaluating power in planning genetic analyzes.

Keywords: heritability; imaging genetics; power calculation; statistical analysis

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