Brain vs behavior: an effect size comparison of neuroimaging and cognitive studies of genetic risk for schizophrenia.
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Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St. James' Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland. rosee@tcd.ieIssue Date
2013-05Keywords
SCHIZOPHRENIAGENETICS
MeSH
BrainCognition Disorders
Electroencephalography
Functional Neuroimaging
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Neuroimaging
Neuropsychological Tests
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenic Psychology
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Rose EJ, Donohoe G. Brain vs behavior: an effect size comparison of neuroimaging and cognitive studies of genetic risk for schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull. 2013, 39 (3):518-26Journal
Schizophrenia bulletinDOI
10.1093/schbul/sbs056PubMed ID
22499782Abstract
Genetic variants associated with increased risk for schizophrenia (SZ) are hypothesized to be more penetrant at the level of brain structure and function than at the level of behavior. However, to date the relative sensitivity of imaging vs cognitive measures of these variants has not been quantified. We considered effect sizes associated with cognitive and imaging studies of 9 robust SZ risk genes (DAOA, DISC1, DTNBP1, NRG1, RGS4, NRGN, CACNA1C, TCF4, and ZNF804A) published between January 2005-November 2011. Summary data was used to calculate estimates of effect size for each significant finding. The mean effect size for each study was categorized as small, medium, or large and the relative frequency of each category was compared between modalities and across genes. Random effects meta-analysis was used to consider the impact of experimental methodology on effect size. Imaging studies reported mostly medium or large effects, whereas cognitive investigations commonly reported small effects. Meta-analysis confirmed that imaging studies were associated with larger effects. Effect size estimates were negatively correlated with sample size but did not differ as a function of gene nor imaging modality. These observations support the notion that SZ risk variants show larger effects, and hence greater penetrance, when characterized using indices of brain structure and function than when indexed by cognitive measures. However, it remains to be established whether this holds true for individual risk variants, imaging modalities, or cognitive functions, and how such effects may be mediated by a relationship with sample size and other aspects of experimental variability.Item Type
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1745-1701ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1093/schbul/sbs056
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