The UK Biobank imaging enhancement of 100,000 participants: rationale, data collection, management and future directions

TJ Littlejohns, J Holliday, LM Gibson, S Garratt… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
UK Biobank is a population-based cohort of half a million participants aged 40–69 years
recruited between 2006 and 2010. In 2014, UK Biobank started the world's largest multi …

The normative modeling framework for computational psychiatry

S Rutherford, SM Kia, T Wolfers, C Fraza, M Zabihi… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
Normative modeling is an emerging and innovative framework for mapping individual
differences at the level of a single subject or observation in relation to a reference model. It …

Heterogeneous aging across multiple organ systems and prediction of chronic disease and mortality

YE Tian, V Cropley, AB Maier, NT Lautenschlager… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Biological aging of human organ systems reflects the interplay of age, chronic disease,
lifestyle and genetic risk. Using longitudinal brain imaging and physiological phenotypes …

SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank

G Douaud, S Lee, F Alfaro-Almagro, C Arthofer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
There is strong evidence of brain-related abnormalities in COVID-19,,,,,,,,,,,–. However, it
remains unknown whether the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection can be detected in milder …

An expanded set of genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank

SM Smith, G Douaud, W Chen, T Hanayik… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
UK Biobank is a major prospective epidemiological study, including multimodal brain
imaging, genetics and ongoing health outcomes. Previously, we published genome-wide …

Associations between alcohol consumption and gray and white matter volumes in the UK Biobank

R Daviet, G Aydogan, K Jagannathan, N Spilka… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Heavy alcohol consumption has been associated with brain atrophy, neuronal loss, and
poorer white matter fiber integrity. However, there is conflicting evidence on whether light-to …

Heart-brain connections: Phenotypic and genetic insights from magnetic resonance images

B Zhao, T Li, Z Fan, Y Yang, J Shu, X Yang, X Wang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Cardiovascular health interacts with cognitive and mental health in complex ways, yet little is
known about the phenotypic and genetic links of heart-brain systems. We quantified heart …

SynthSR: A public AI tool to turn heterogeneous clinical brain scans into high-resolution T1-weighted images for 3D morphometry

JE Iglesias, B Billot, Y Balbastre, C Magdamo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Every year, millions of brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are acquired in
hospitals across the world. These have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of …

fMRIPrep: a robust preprocessing pipeline for functional MRI

O Esteban, CJ Markiewicz, RW Blair, CA Moodie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Preprocessing of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) involves numerous steps to
clean and standardize the data before statistical analysis. Generally, researchers create ad …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank

LT Elliott, K Sharp, F Alfaro-Almagro, S Shi, KL Miller… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The genetic architecture of brain structure and function is largely unknown. To investigate
this, we carried out genome-wide association studies of 3,144 functional and structural brain …