Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China.
Hum Brain Mapp. 2023 Nov;44(16):5387-5401. doi: 10.1002/hbm.26443. Epub 2023 Aug 22.
Gene expression plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). How gene expression profiles are correlated with functional-metabolic architecture remains obscure. We enrolled 34 PD patients and 25 age-and-sex-matched healthy controls for simultaneous F-FDG-PET/functional MRI scanning during resting state. We investigated the functional gradients and the ratio of standard uptake value. Principal component analysis was used to further combine the functional gradients and glucose metabolism into functional-metabolic architecture. Using partial least squares (PLS) regression, we introduced the transcriptomic data from the Allen Institute of Brain Sciences to identify gene expression patterns underlying the affected functional-metabolic architecture in PD. Between-group comparisons revealed significantly higher gradient variation in the visual, somatomotor, dorsal attention, frontoparietal, default mode, and subcortical network (p < .048) in PD. Increased FDG-uptake was found in the somatomotor and ventral attention network while decreased FDG-uptake was found in the visual network (p < .008). Spatial correlation analysis showed consistently affected patterns of functional gradients and metabolism (p = 2.47 × 10 ). PLS analysis and gene ontological analyses further revealed that genes were mainly enriched for metabolic, catabolic, cellular response to ions, and regulation of DNA transcription and RNA biosynthesis. In conclusion, our study provided genetic pathological mechanism to explain imaging-defined brain functional-metabolic architecture of PD.
基因表达在帕金森病(PD)的发病机制中起着关键作用。基因表达谱如何与功能代谢结构相关尚不清楚。我们招募了 34 名 PD 患者和 25 名年龄和性别匹配的健康对照者,在静息状态下同时进行 F-FDG-PET/功能磁共振成像扫描。我们研究了功能梯度和标准摄取值比。主成分分析进一步将功能梯度和葡萄糖代谢组合成功能代谢结构。使用偏最小二乘(PLS)回归,我们引入了艾伦脑科学研究所的转录组数据,以确定 PD 中受影响的功能代谢结构背后的基因表达模式。组间比较显示,PD 患者的视觉、躯体运动、背侧注意、额顶叶、默认模式和皮质下网络的梯度变化显著更高(p < .048)。在躯体运动和腹侧注意网络中发现 FDG 摄取增加,而在视觉网络中发现 FDG 摄取减少(p < .008)。空间相关分析显示功能梯度和代谢的一致性受影响模式(p = 2.47 × 10)。PLS 分析和基因本体分析进一步表明,基因主要富集代谢、分解代谢、细胞对离子的反应以及 DNA 转录和 RNA 生物合成的调节。总之,我们的研究提供了遗传病理机制,以解释 PD 的成像定义的大脑功能代谢结构。