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Reproducibility of tract‐based white matter microstructural measures using the ENIGMA‐DTI protocol

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Title
Reproducibility of tract‐based white matter microstructural measures using the ENIGMA‐DTI protocol
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Brain and Behavior, January 2017
DOI 10.1002/brb3.615
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Ashley Acheson, S. Andrea Wijtenburg, Laura M. Rowland, Anderson Winkler, Charles W. Mathias, L. Elliot Hong, Neda Jahanshad, Binish Patel, Paul M. Thompson, Stephen A. McGuire, Paul M. Sherman, Peter Kochunov, Donald M. Dougherty

Abstract

In preparation for longitudinal analyses of white matter development in youths with family histories of substance use disorders (FH+) or without such histories (FH-), we examined the reproducibility and reliability of global and regional measures of fractional anisotropy (FA) values, measured using the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA)-diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) protocol. Highly reliable measures are necessary to detect any subtle differences in brain development. First, we analyzed reproducibility data in a sample of 12 healthy young adults (ages 20-28) imaged three times within a week. Next, we calculated the same metrics in data collected 1-year apart in the sample of 68 FH+ and 21 FH- adolescents. This is a timeframe where within subject changes in white matter microstructure are small compared to between subject variance. Reproducibility was estimated by examining mean coefficients of variation (MCV), mean absolute differences (MAD), and intraclass correlations (ICC) for global and tract-specific FA values. We found excellent reproducibility for whole-brain DTI-FA values and most of the white matter tracts, except for the corticospinal tract and the fornix in both adults and youths. There was no significant effect of FH-group on reproducibility (p = .4). Reproducibility metrics were not significantly different between adolescents and adults (all p > .2). In post hoc analyses, the reproducibility metrics for regional FA values showed a strong positive correlation (r = .6) with the regional FA heritability measures previously reported by ENIGMA-DTI. Overall, this study demonstrated an excellent reproducibility of ENIGMA-DTI FA, positing it as viable analysis tools for longitudinal studies and other protocols that repeatedly assess white matter microstructure.

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United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 57 98%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 21%
Researcher 10 17%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Other 9 16%
Unknown 16 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 10 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 14%
Psychology 7 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 25 43%
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