Polygenic architecture of human neuroanatomical diversity

We analyzed the genomic architecture of neuroanatomical diversity using magnetic resonance imaging and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from >26 000 individuals from the UK Biobank project and 5 other projects that had previously participated in the ENIGMA (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis) consortium. Our results confirm the polygenic architecture of neuroanatomical diversity, with SNPs capturing from 40% to 54% of regional brain volume variance. Chromosomal length correlated with the amount of phenotypic variance captured, r ~ 0.64 on average, suggesting that at a global scale causal variants are homogeneously distributed across the genome. At a local scale, SNPs within genes (~51%) captured ~1.5 times more genetic variance than the rest, and SNPs with low minor allele frequency (MAF) captured less variance than the rest: the 40% of SNPs with MAF <5% captured

Keywords:

• Neuroimaging
• Psychology
• Heritability
• Architecture
• Cognitive psychology
• Genetic correlation
• Pleiotropy
• Neuroscience
• Single-nucleotide polymorphism
• Evolutionary biology
• Genetic variation
• Brain size
• Brain asymmetry
• Minor allele frequency

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