Faculty Opinions recommendation of The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex.
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Abstract
The cerebral cortex underlies our complex cognitive capabilities, yet little is known about the specific genetic loci that influence human cortical structure. To identify genetic variants that affect cortical structure, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of brain magnetic resonance imaging data from 51,665 individuals. We analyzed the surface area and average thickness of the whole cortex and 34 regions with known functional specializations. We identified 199 significant loci and found significant enrichment for loci influencing total surface area within regulatory elements that are active during prenatal cortical development, supporting the radial unit hypothesis. Loci that affect regional surface area cluster near genes in Wnt signaling pathways, which influence progenitor expansion and areal identity. Variation in cortical structure is genetically correlated with cognitive function, Parkinson's disease, insomnia, depression, neuroticism, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. PMID: 32193296 Funding information This work was supported by: NIA NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: U01 AG049505 NIA NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: R01 AG059874 NIA NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: R01 AG022381 NIDA NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: RC2 DA029475 NIA NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: RF1 AG051710 NHLBI NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: N01HC85081 Medical Research Council, United Kingdom Grant ID: G9815508 NINDS NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: R01 NS042867 NCRR NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: S10 RR023401 NIMH NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: RC1 MH089257 NIMH NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: R01 MH119243 NHLBI NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: N01HC85080 NIMH NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: R01 MH085646 NIMH NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: R01 MH118349 NCATS NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: UL1 TR001881 NHLBI NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: R01 HL087641 NIA NIH HHS, United States Grant ID: R01 AG023629 Medical Research Council, United Kingdom Grant ID: MR/L010305/1 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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.602 | 0.428 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".