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Distinct impact modes of polygenic disposition to dyslexia in the adult brain

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Soheili-Nezhad,  Sourena
Language and Genetics Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations;

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Schijven,  Dick
Language and Genetics Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Fisher,  Simon E.
Language and Genetics Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations;

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Francks,  Clyde
Language and Genetics Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Imaging Genomics, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Radboud University Medical Center;

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Soheili-Nezhad, S., Schijven, D., Mars, R. B., Fisher, S. E., & Francks, C. (2024). Distinct impact modes of polygenic disposition to dyslexia in the adult brain. Science Advances, 10(51): eadq2754. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adq2754.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-1E53-3
Abstract
Dyslexia is a common condition that impacts reading ability. Identifying affected brain networks has been hampered by limited sample sizes of imaging case-control studies. We focused instead on brain structural correlates of genetic disposition to dyslexia in large-scale population data. In over 30,000 adults (UK Biobank), higher polygenic disposition to dyslexia was associated with lower head and brain size, and especially reduced volume and/or altered fiber density in networks involved in motor control, language and vision. However, individual genetic variants disposing to dyslexia often had quite distinct patterns of association with brain structural features. Independent component analysis applied to brain-wide association maps for thousands of dyslexia-disposing genetic variants revealed multiple impact modes on the brain, that corresponded to anatomically distinct areas with their own genomic profiles of association. Polygenic scores for dyslexia-related cognitive and educational measures, as well as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, showed similarities to dyslexia polygenic disposition in terms of brain-wide associations, with microstructure of the internal capsule consistently implicated. In contrast, lower volume of the primary motor cortex was only associated with higher dyslexia polygenic disposition among all traits. These findings robustly reveal heterogeneous neurobiological aspects of dyslexia genetic disposition, and whether they are shared or unique with respect to other genetically correlated traits.