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Karin Saltoun

Doctorat - McGill
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e
Sujets de recherche
Apprentissage automatique médical
Biologie computationnelle

Publications

Rare CNVs and phenome-wide profiling highlight brain structural divergence and phenotypical convergence
Kuldeep Kumar
Claudia Modenato
Clara Moreau
Sandra Martin‐Brevet
Martineau Jean‐Louis
Charles-Olivier Martin
Zohra Saci
Nadine Younis
Petra Tamer
Élise Douard
Anne Maillard
Borja Rodríguez‐Herreros
Aurélie Pain
Sonia Richetin
Leila Kushan
Ana Isabel Silva
Marianne van den Bree … (voir 12 de plus)
David E.J. Linden
Michael J. Owen
Jeremy Hall
Sarah Lippé
Bogdan Draganski
Ida E. Sønderby
Ole A. Andreassen
David C. Glahn
Paul M. Thompson
Carrie E. Bearden
Sébastien Jacquemont
Copy number variations (CNVs) are rare genomic deletions and duplications that can affect brain and behaviour. Previous reports of CNV pleio… (voir plus)tropy imply that they converge on shared mechanisms at some level of pathway cascades, from genes to large-scale neural circuits to the phenome. However, existing studies have primarily examined single CNV loci in small clinical cohorts. It remains unknown, for example, how distinct CNVs escalate vulnerability for the same developmental and psychiatric disorders. Here we quantitatively dissect the associations between brain organization and behavioural differentiation across 8 key CNVs. In 534 CNV carriers, we explored CNV-specific brain morphology patterns. CNVs were characteristic of disparate morphological changes involving multiple large-scale networks. We extensively annotated these CNV-associated patterns with ~1,000 lifestyle indicators through the UK Biobank resource. The resulting phenotypic profiles largely overlap and have body-wide implications, including the cardiovascular, endocrine, skeletal and nervous systems. Our population-level investigation established brain structural divergences and phenotypical convergences of CNVs, with direct relevance to major brain disorders.
APOE alleles are associated with sex-specific structural differences in brain regions affected in Alzheimer's disease and related dementia
Sylvia Villeneuve
AmanPreet Badhwar
Kimia Shafighi
Chris Zajner
Vaibhav Sharma
Sarah A. Gagliano Taliun
Sali Farhan
Judes Poirier
Alzheimer’s disease is marked by intracellular tau aggregates in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and extracellular amyloid aggregates in th… (voir plus)e default network (DN). Here, we examined codependent structural variations between the MTL’s most vulnerable structure, the hippocampus (HC), and the DN at subregion resolution in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD). By leveraging the power of the approximately 40,000 participants of the UK Biobank cohort, we assessed impacts from the protective APOE ɛ2 and the deleterious APOE ɛ4 Alzheimer’s disease alleles on these structural relationships. We demonstrate ɛ2 and ɛ4 genotype effects on the inter-individual expression of HC-DN co-variation structural patterns at the population level. Across these HC-DN signatures, recurrent deviations in the CA1, CA2/3, molecular layer, fornix’s fimbria, and their cortical partners related to ADRD risk. Analyses of the rich phenotypic profiles in the UK Biobank cohort further revealed male-specific HC-DN associations with air pollution and female-specific associations with cardiovascular traits. We also showed that APOE ɛ2/2 interacts preferentially with HC-DN co-variation patterns in estimating social lifestyle in males and physical activity in females. Our structural, genetic, and phenotypic analyses in this large epidemiological cohort reinvigorate the often-neglected interplay between APOE ɛ2 dosage and sex and link APOE alleles to inter-individual brain structural differences indicative of ADRD familial risk.
Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles
Ralph Adolphs
Lynn K. Paul
Vaibhav Sharma
Joern Diedrichsen
B. T. Thomas Yeo
<i>APOE</i> ɛ2 vs <i>APOE</i> ɛ4 dosage shows sex-specific links to hippocampus-default network subregion co-variation
Sylvia Villeneuve
AmanPreet Badhwar
Kimia Shafighi
Chris Zajner
Vaibhav Sharma
Sarah A Gagliano Taliun
Sali Farhan
Judes Poirier
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are marked by intracellular tau aggregates in the medial-temporal lobe (MTL) and extracel… (voir plus)lular amyloid aggregates in the default network (DN). Here, we sought to clarify ADRD-related co-dependencies between the MTL’s most vulnerable structure, the hippocampus (HC), and the highly associative DN at a subregion resolution. We confronted the effects of APOE ɛ2 and ɛ4, rarely investigated together, with their impact on HC-DN co-variation regimes at the population level. In a two-pronged decomposition of structural brain scans from ∼40,000 UK Biobank participants, we located co-deviating structural patterns in HC and DN subregions as a function of ADRD family risk. Across the disclosed HC-DN signatures, recurrent deviations in the CA1, CA2/3, molecular layer, fornix’s fimbria, and their cortical partners related to ADRD risk. Phenome-wide profiling of HC-DN co- variation expressions from these population signatures revealed male-specific associations with air-pollution, and female-specific associations with cardiovascular traits. We highlighted three main factors associated with brain-APOE associations across the different gene variants: happiness, and satisfaction with friendships, and with family. We further showed that APOE ɛ2/2 interacts preferentially with HC-DN co-variation patterns in estimating social lifestyle in males and physical activity in females. Our findings reinvigorate the often-neglected interplay between APOE ɛ2 dosage and sex, which we have linked to fine-grained structural divergences indicative of ADRD susceptibility.