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Nature Research, Nature Communications, 1(12), 2021

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25492-9

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Accelerated functional brain aging in pre-clinical familial Alzheimer’s disease

Journal article published in 2021 by Julie Gonneaud, Alex T. Baria, Alexa Pichet Binette, Alexa Pichet Binette ORCID, Brian A. Gordon, Jasmeer P. Chhatwal, Carlos Cruchaga, Mathias Jucker, Johannes Levin, Stephen Salloway ORCID, Martin Farlow, Serge Gauthier, Tammie L. S. Benzinger, John C. Morris, Randall J. Bateman and other authors.
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Abstract

AbstractResting state functional connectivity (rs-fMRI) is impaired early in persons who subsequently develop Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia. This impairment may be leveraged to aid investigation of the pre-clinical phase of AD. We developed a model that predicts brain age from resting state (rs)-fMRI data, and assessed whether genetic determinants of AD, as well as beta-amyloid (Aβ) pathology, can accelerate brain aging. Using data from 1340 cognitively unimpaired participants between 18–94 years of age from multiple sites, we showed that topological properties of graphs constructed from rs-fMRI can predict chronological age across the lifespan. Application of our predictive model to the context of pre-clinical AD revealed that the pre-symptomatic phase of autosomal dominant AD includes acceleration of functional brain aging. This association was stronger in individuals having significant Aβ pathology.