McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Nat Commun. 2023 May 18;14(1):2850. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38585-4.
The wiring of the brain connects micro-architecturally diverse neuronal populations, but the conventional graph model, which encodes macroscale brain connectivity as a network of nodes and edges, abstracts away the rich biological detail of each regional node. Here, we annotate connectomes with multiple biological attributes and formally study assortative mixing in annotated connectomes. Namely, we quantify the tendency for regions to be connected based on the similarity of their micro-architectural attributes. We perform all experiments using four cortico-cortical connectome datasets from three different species, and consider a range of molecular, cellular, and laminar annotations. We show that mixing between micro-architecturally diverse neuronal populations is supported by long-distance connections and find that the arrangement of connections with respect to biological annotations is associated to patterns of regional functional specialization. By bridging scales of cortical organization, from microscale attributes to macroscale connectivity, this work lays the foundation for next-generation annotated connectomics.
大脑的连接方式将微观结构不同的神经元群体连接起来,但传统的图模型将宏观尺度的大脑连接抽象为节点和边的网络,忽略了每个区域节点丰富的生物学细节。在这里,我们用多个生物学属性注释连接组,并正式研究注释连接组中的 assortative 混合。也就是说,我们根据微观结构属性的相似性来量化区域连接的趋势。我们使用来自三个不同物种的四个皮质-皮质连接组数据集来执行所有实验,并考虑了一系列分子、细胞和层状注释。我们表明,长距离连接支持微观结构不同的神经元群体之间的混合,并且发现连接相对于生物学注释的排列方式与区域功能专业化模式相关。通过连接皮质组织的各个层次,从微观属性到宏观连接,这项工作为下一代注释连接组学奠定了基础。
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