Transcriptomic and cellular decoding of regional brain vulnerability to neurogenetic disorders.

ABSTRACT: Neurodevelopmental disorders have a heritable component and are associated with region specific alterations in brain anatomy. However, it is unclear how genetic risks for neurodevelopmental disorders are translated into spatially patterned brain vulnerabilities. Here, we integrated cortical neuroimaging data from patients with neurodevelopmental disorders caused by genomic copy number variations (CNVs) and gene expression data from healthy subjects. For each of the six investigated disorders, we show that spatial patterns of cortical anatomy changes in youth are correlated with cortical spatial expression of CNV genes in neurotypical adults. By transforming normative bulk-tissue cortical expression data into cell-type expression maps, we link anatomical change maps in each analysed disorde

SUBMITTER: Seidlitz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7335069 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature