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Record W4406579747 · doi:10.1101/2025.01.17.633277

Associations between epilepsy-related polygenic risk and brain morphology in childhood

2025· preprint· en· W4406579747 on OpenAlexafffund
Alexander Ngo, Lang Liu, Sara Larivière, Valeria Kebets, Serena Fett, Clara F. Weber, Jessica Royer, Eric Yu, Raúl Rodríguez‐Cruces, Zhiqiang Zhang, Leon Qi Rong Ooi, B.T. Thomas Yeo, Birgit Frauscher, Casey Paquola, Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, Antonio Gambardella, Luis Concha, Simon S. Keller, Fernando Cendes, Clarissa Lin Yasuda, Leonardo Bonilha, Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Niels K. Focke, Raviteja Kotikalapudi, Terence J. O’Brien, Lucy Vivash, Patricia Desmond, Elaine Lui, Anna Elisabetta Vaudano, Stefano Meletti, Reetta Kälviäinen, Hamid Soltanian‐Zadeh, Gavin P. Winston, Vijay Tiwari, Barbara A. K. Kreilkamp, Matteo Lenge, Renzo Guerrini, Khalid Hamandi, Theodor Rüber, Tobias Bauer, Orrin Devinsky, Pasquale Striano, Erik Kaestner, Sean N. Hatton, Lorenzo Caciagli, Matthias Kirschner, John S. Duncan, Paul M. Thompson, Carrie R. McDonald, Sanjay M. Sisodiya, Neda Bernasconi, Andrea Bernasconi, Ziv Gan‐Or, Boris C. Bernhardt

Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies
Canadian institutionsCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de SherbrookeUniversité de SherbrookeQueen's UniversityMcGill UniversityMontreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
FundersNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeDirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoNational Medical Research CouncilNational Center for Advancing Translational SciencesMedical Research CouncilFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Institutes of HealthCentre Azrieli de recherche sur l'autisme, Institut et Hôpital Neurologiques de MontréalUniversity College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSaastamoisen säätiöRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität BonnNational Health and Medical Research CouncilFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloChina Postdoctoral Science FoundationNational Institute for Health and Care ResearchBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchTemasek FoundationNational University of SingaporeUniversity College LondonHospital for Sick ChildrenMinistero della SaluteAustralian GovernmentConsortium canadien en neurodégénérescence associée au vieillissementConsejo Nacional de Ciencia y TecnologíaEpilepsy SocietyNational Science Foundation
KeywordsPolygenic risk scoreBrain morphometryEpilepsyMorphology (biology)PsychologyMedicineNeuroscienceBiologyZoologyGeneticsMagnetic resonance imagingGeneGenotypeRadiology

Abstract

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Temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (TLE-HS) is associated with a complex genetic architecture, but the translation from genetic risk factors to brain vulnerability remains unclear. Here, we examined associations between epilepsy-related polygenic risk scores for HS (PRS-HS) and brain structure in a large sample of neurotypical children, and correlated these signatures with case-control findings in in multicentric cohorts of patients with TLE-HS. Imaging-genetic analyses revealed PRS-related cortical thinning in temporo-parietal and fronto-central regions, strongly anchored to distinct functional and structural network epicentres. Compared to disease-related effects derived from epilepsy case-control cohorts, structural correlates of PRS-HS mirrored atrophy and epicentre patterns in patients with TLE-HS. By identifying a potential pathway between genetic vulnerability and disease mechanisms, our findings provide new insights into the genetic underpinnings of structural alterations in TLE-HS and highlight potential imaging-genetic biomarkers for early risk stratification and personalized interventions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.007

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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