Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

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

  • Sara Larivière,
  • Jessica Royer,
  • Raúl Rodríguez-Cruces,
  • Casey Paquola,
  • Maria Eugenia Caligiuri,
  • Antonio Gambardella,
  • Luis Concha,
  • Simon S. Keller,
  • Fernando Cendes,
  • Clarissa L. Yasuda,
  • Leonardo Bonilha,
  • Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht,
  • Niels K. Focke,
  • Martin Domin,
  • Felix von Podewills,
  • Soenke Langner,
  • Christian Rummel,
  • Roland Wiest,
  • Pascal Martin,
  • Raviteja Kotikalapudi,
  • Terence J. O’Brien,
  • Benjamin Sinclair,
  • Lucy Vivash,
  • Patricia M. Desmond,
  • Elaine Lui,
  • Anna Elisabetta Vaudano,
  • Stefano Meletti,
  • Manuela Tondelli,
  • Saud Alhusaini,
  • Colin P. Doherty,
  • Gianpiero L. Cavalleri,
  • Norman Delanty,
  • Reetta Kälviäinen,
  • Graeme D. Jackson,
  • Magdalena Kowalczyk,
  • Mario Mascalchi,
  • Mira Semmelroch,
  • Rhys H. Thomas,
  • Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh,
  • Esmaeil Davoodi-Bojd,
  • Junsong Zhang,
  • Gavin P. Winston,
  • Aoife Griffin,
  • Aditi Singh,
  • Vijay K. Tiwari,
  • Barbara A. K. Kreilkamp,
  • Matteo Lenge,
  • Renzo Guerrini,
  • Khalid Hamandi,
  • Sonya Foley,
  • Theodor Rüber,
  • Bernd Weber,
  • Chantal Depondt,
  • Julie Absil,
  • Sarah J. A. Carr,
  • Eugenio Abela,
  • Mark P. Richardson,
  • Orrin Devinsky,
  • Mariasavina Severino,
  • Pasquale Striano,
  • Domenico Tortora,
  • Erik Kaestner,
  • Sean N. Hatton,
  • Sjoerd B. Vos,
  • Lorenzo Caciagli,
  • John S. Duncan,
  • Christopher D. Whelan,
  • Paul M. Thompson,
  • Sanjay M. Sisodiya,
  • Andrea Bernasconi,
  • Angelo Labate,
  • Carrie R. McDonald,
  • Neda Bernasconi,
  • Boris C. Bernhardt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31730-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Epilepsy is a brain network disorder with associated genetic risk factors. Here, the authors show that spatial patterns of transcriptomic vulnerability co-vary with structural brain network alterations in focal and generalized epilepsy.