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Nature Research, Nature Communications, 1(13), 2022

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31730-5

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Structural network alterations in focal and generalized epilepsy assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study follow axes of epilepsy risk gene expression

Journal article published in 2022 by Sara Larivière ORCID, Larivière,Sara, Jessica Royer ORCID, Royer,Jessica, Raúl Rodríguez-Cruces ORCID, Casey Paquola, Paquola,Casey, Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, Caligiuri,Maria Eugenia, Antonio Gambardella ORCID, Gambardella,Antonio, Luis Concha ORCID, Concha,Luis, Simon S. Keller, Keller,Simon S. and other authors.
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Abstract

AbstractEpilepsy is associated with genetic risk factors and cortico-subcortical network alterations, but associations between neurobiological mechanisms and macroscale connectomics remain unclear. This multisite ENIGMA-Epilepsy study examined whole-brain structural covariance networks in patients with epilepsy and related findings to postmortem epilepsy risk gene expression patterns. Brain network analysis included 578 adults with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), 288 adults with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE), and 1328 healthy controls from 18 centres worldwide. Graph theoretical analysis of structural covariance networks revealed increased clustering and path length in orbitofrontal and temporal regions in TLE, suggesting a shift towards network regularization. Conversely, people with IGE showed decreased clustering and path length in fronto-temporo-parietal cortices, indicating a random network configuration. Syndrome-specific topological alterations reflected expression patterns of risk genes for hippocampal sclerosis in TLE and for generalized epilepsy in IGE. These imaging-transcriptomic signatures could potentially guide diagnosis or tailor therapeutic approaches to specific epilepsy syndromes.