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ENIGMA and the individual: Predicting factors that affect the brain in 35 countries worldwide.

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Thompson, PM; Andreassen, OA; Arias-Vasquez, A; Bearden, CE; Boedhoe, PS; Brouwer, RM; Buckner, RL; Buitelaar, JK; Bulayeva, KB; Cannon, DM ...
Published in: Neuroimage
January 15, 2017

In this review, we discuss recent work by the ENIGMA Consortium (http://enigma.ini.usc.edu) - a global alliance of over 500 scientists spread across 200 institutions in 35 countries collectively analyzing brain imaging, clinical, and genetic data. Initially formed to detect genetic influences on brain measures, ENIGMA has grown to over 30 working groups studying 12 major brain diseases by pooling and comparing brain data. In some of the largest neuroimaging studies to date - of schizophrenia and major depression - ENIGMA has found replicable disease effects on the brain that are consistent worldwide, as well as factors that modulate disease effects. In partnership with other consortia including ADNI, CHARGE, IMAGEN and others1, ENIGMA's genomic screens - now numbering over 30,000 MRI scans - have revealed at least 8 genetic loci that affect brain volumes. Downstream of gene findings, ENIGMA has revealed how these individual variants - and genetic variants in general - may affect both the brain and risk for a range of diseases. The ENIGMA consortium is discovering factors that consistently affect brain structure and function that will serve as future predictors linking individual brain scans and genomic data. It is generating vast pools of normative data on brain measures - from tens of thousands of people - that may help detect deviations from normal development or aging in specific groups of subjects. We discuss challenges and opportunities in applying these predictors to individual subjects and new cohorts, as well as lessons we have learned in ENIGMA's efforts so far.

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Neuroimage

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1095-9572

Publication Date

January 15, 2017

Volume

145

Issue

Pt B

Start / End Page

389 / 408

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Neurology & Neurosurgery
  • Multicenter Studies as Topic
  • Mental Disorders
  • Humans
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Brain Diseases
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences
 

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Thompson, P. M., Andreassen, O. A., Arias-Vasquez, A., Bearden, C. E., Boedhoe, P. S., Brouwer, R. M., … ENIGMA Consortium, . (2017). ENIGMA and the individual: Predicting factors that affect the brain in 35 countries worldwide. Neuroimage, 145(Pt B), 389–408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.057
Thompson, Paul M., Ole A. Andreassen, Alejandro Arias-Vasquez, Carrie E. Bearden, Premika S. Boedhoe, Rachel M. Brouwer, Randy L. Buckner, et al. “ENIGMA and the individual: Predicting factors that affect the brain in 35 countries worldwide.Neuroimage 145, no. Pt B (January 15, 2017): 389–408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.057.
Thompson PM, Andreassen OA, Arias-Vasquez A, Bearden CE, Boedhoe PS, Brouwer RM, et al. ENIGMA and the individual: Predicting factors that affect the brain in 35 countries worldwide. Neuroimage. 2017 Jan 15;145(Pt B):389–408.
Thompson, Paul M., et al. “ENIGMA and the individual: Predicting factors that affect the brain in 35 countries worldwide.Neuroimage, vol. 145, no. Pt B, Jan. 2017, pp. 389–408. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.057.
Thompson PM, Andreassen OA, Arias-Vasquez A, Bearden CE, Boedhoe PS, Brouwer RM, Buckner RL, Buitelaar JK, Bulayeva KB, Cannon DM, Cohen RA, Conrod PJ, Dale AM, Deary IJ, Dennis EL, de Reus MA, Desrivieres S, Dima D, Donohoe G, Fisher SE, Fouche J-P, Francks C, Frangou S, Franke B, Ganjgahi H, Garavan H, Glahn DC, Grabe HJ, Guadalupe T, Gutman BA, Hashimoto R, Hibar DP, Holland D, Hoogman M, Hulshoff Pol HE, Hosten N, Jahanshad N, Kelly S, Kochunov P, Kremen WS, Lee PH, Mackey S, Martin NG, Mazoyer B, McDonald C, Medland SE, Morey RA, Nichols TE, Paus T, Pausova Z, Schmaal L, Schumann G, Shen L, Sisodiya SM, Smit DJA, Smoller JW, Stein DJ, Stein JL, Toro R, Turner JA, van den Heuvel MP, van den Heuvel OL, van Erp TGM, van Rooij D, Veltman DJ, Walter H, Wang Y, Wardlaw JM, Whelan CD, Wright MJ, Ye J, ENIGMA Consortium. ENIGMA and the individual: Predicting factors that affect the brain in 35 countries worldwide. Neuroimage. 2017 Jan 15;145(Pt B):389–408.
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Published In

Neuroimage

DOI

EISSN

1095-9572

Publication Date

January 15, 2017

Volume

145

Issue

Pt B

Start / End Page

389 / 408

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Neurology & Neurosurgery
  • Multicenter Studies as Topic
  • Mental Disorders
  • Humans
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Brain Diseases
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences