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可重复的全脑关联研究需要数以千计的个体
2022-03-20 16:25

美国圣路易斯华盛顿大学Nico U. F. Dosenbach等研究人员合作发现,可重复的全脑关联研究需要数以千计的个体。2022年3月16日,《自然》杂志在线发表了这项成果。

研究人员表示,磁共振成像(MRI)通过对特定结构(如病变研究)和功能(如任务功能MRI(fMRI))进行良好的复制映射,改变了人们对人类大脑的理解。心理健康研究和护理还没有从MRI中实现类似的进展。一个主要的挑战是复制大脑结构或功能的个体间差异与复杂的认知或精神健康表型之间的关联(全脑关联研究(BWAS))。这种全脑关联研究通常依赖于适合经典脑图的样本量(神经影像研究的样本量中位数约为25),但对于捕捉可重复的大脑行为表型关联来说可能太小。
 
研究人员使用了目前最大的三个神经影像数据集(总样本量约为50,000人)来量化了BWAS的效应大小和作为样本量函数的可重复性。BWAS的关联比以前认为的要小,导致统计学上力量不足的研究、夸大的效应大小和典型样本量的复制失败。随着样本量增加到数千,复制率开始提高,效应大小膨胀减少。功能性MRI(相对于结构性)、认知测试(相对于心理健康问卷)和多变量方法(相对于单变量)都检测到了更强的BWAS效应。小于预期的大脑表型关联和跨人群子样本的变化可以解释广泛的BWAS重复失败。与具有较大效应的非BWAS方法(如病变、干预和人内)相比,BWAS的可重复性需要有成千上万的个体样本。
 
附:英文原文
 
Title: Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals

Author: Marek, Scott, Tervo-Clemmens, Brenden, Calabro, Finnegan J., Montez, David F., Kay, Benjamin P., Hatoum, Alexander S., Donohue, Meghan Rose, Foran, William, Miller, Ryland L., Hendrickson, Timothy J., Malone, Stephen M., Kandala, Sridhar, Feczko, Eric, Miranda-Dominguez, Oscar, Graham, Alice M., Earl, Eric A., Perrone, Anders J., Cordova, Michaela, Doyle, Olivia, Moore, Lucille A., Conan, Gregory M., Uriarte, Johnny, Snider, Kathy, Lynch, Benjamin J., Wilgenbusch, James C., Pengo, Thomas, Tam, Angela, Chen, Jianzhong, Newbold, Dillan J., Zheng, Annie, Seider, Nicole A., Van, Andrew N., Metoki, Athanasia, Chauvin, Roselyne J., Laumann, Timothy O., Greene, Deanna J., Petersen, Steven E., Garavan, Hugh, Thompson, Wesley K., Nichols, Thomas E., Yeo, B. T. Thomas, Barch, Deanna M., Luna, Beatriz, Fair, Damien A., Dosenbach, Nico U. F.

Issue&Volume: 2022-03-16

Abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has transformed our understanding of the human brain through well-replicated mapping of abilities to specific structures (for example, lesion studies) and functions1,2,3 (for example, task functional MRI (fMRI)). Mental health research and care have yet to realize similar advances from MRI. A primary challenge has been replicating associations between inter-individual differences in brain structure or function and complex cognitive or mental health phenotypes (brain-wide association studies (BWAS)). Such BWAS have typically relied on sample sizes appropriate for classical brain mapping4 (the median neuroimaging study sample size is about 25), but potentially too small for capturing reproducible brain–behavioural phenotype associations5,6. Here we used three of the largest neuroimaging datasets currently available—with a total sample size of around 50,000 individuals—to quantify BWAS effect sizes and reproducibility as a function of sample size. BWAS associations were smaller than previously thought, resulting in statistically underpowered studies, inflated effect sizes and replication failures at typical sample sizes. As sample sizes grew into the thousands, replication rates began to improve and effect size inflation decreased. More robust BWAS effects were detected for functional MRI (versus structural), cognitive tests (versus mental health questionnaires) and multivariate methods (versus univariate). Smaller than expected brain–phenotype associations and variability across population subsamples can explain widespread BWAS replication failures. In contrast to non-BWAS approaches with larger effects (for example, lesions, interventions and within-person), BWAS reproducibility requires samples with thousands of individuals.

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04492-9

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04492-9

Nature:《自然》,创刊于1869年。隶属于施普林格·自然出版集团,最新IF:69.504
官方网址:http://www.nature.com/
投稿链接:http://www.nature.com/authors/submit_manuscript.html


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