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Head Motion and Inattention/Hyperactivity Share Common Genetic Influences: Implications for fMRI Studies of ADHD

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Title
Head Motion and Inattention/Hyperactivity Share Common Genetic Influences: Implications for fMRI Studies of ADHD
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PLOS ONE, January 2016
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0146271
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Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Jane L. Ebejer, Nathan A. Gillespie, David L. Duffy, Ian B. Hickie, Paul M. Thompson, Nicholas G. Martin, Greig I. de Zubicaray, Katie L. McMahon, Sarah E. Medland, Margaret J. Wright

Abstract

Head motion (HM) is a well known confound in analyses of functional MRI (fMRI) data. Neuroimaging researchers therefore typically treat HM as a nuisance covariate in their analyses. Even so, it is possible that HM shares a common genetic influence with the trait of interest. Here we investigate the extent to which this relationship is due to shared genetic factors, using HM extracted from resting-state fMRI and maternal and self report measures of Inattention and Hyperactivity-Impulsivity from the Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD Symptoms and Normal Behaviour (SWAN) scales. Our sample consisted of healthy young adult twins (N = 627 (63% females) including 95 MZ and 144 DZ twin pairs, mean age 22, who had mother-reported SWAN; N = 725 (58% females) including 101 MZ and 156 DZ pairs, mean age 25, with self reported SWAN). This design enabled us to distinguish genetic from environmental factors in the association between head movement and ADHD scales. HM was moderately correlated with maternal reports of Inattention (r = 0.17, p-value = 7.4E-5) and Hyperactivity-Impulsivity (r = 0.16, p-value = 2.9E-4), and these associations were mainly due to pleiotropic genetic factors with genetic correlations [95% CIs] of rg = 0.24 [0.02, 0.43] and rg = 0.23 [0.07, 0.39]. Correlations between self-reports and HM were not significant, due largely to increased measurement error. These results indicate that treating HM as a nuisance covariate in neuroimaging studies of ADHD will likely reduce power to detect between-group effects, as the implicit assumption of independence between HM and Inattention or Hyperactivity-Impulsivity is not warranted. The implications of this finding are problematic for fMRI studies of ADHD, as failing to apply HM correction is known to increase the likelihood of false positives. We discuss two ways to circumvent this problem: censoring the motion contaminated frames of the RS-fMRI scan or explicitly modeling the relationship between HM and Inattention or Hyperactivity-Impulsivity.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 21%
Researcher 20 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 17%
Student > Bachelor 10 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 24 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 23 20%
Neuroscience 22 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 3%
Other 18 16%
Unknown 31 27%
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