Machine Learning of Functional Connectivity to Biotype Alcohol and Nicotine Use Disorders

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BACKGROUND: Magnetic resonance imaging provides noninvasive tools to investigate alcohol use disorder (AUD) and nicotine use disorder (NUD) and neural phenotypes for genetic studies. A data-driven transdiagnostic approach could provide a new perspective on the neurobiology of AUD and NUD.

METHODS: Using samples of individuals with AUD (n = 140), individuals with NUD (n = 249), and healthy control participants (n = 461) from the UK Biobank, we integrated clinical, neuroimaging, and genetic markers to identify biotypes of AUD and NUD. We partitioned participants with AUD and NUD based on resting-state functional connectivity (FC) features associated with clinical metrics. A multitask artificial neural network was trained to evaluate the cluster-defined biotypes and jointly infer AUD and NUD diagnoses.

RESULTS: Three biotypes-primary NUD, mixed NUD/AUD with depression and anxiety, and mixed AUD/NUD-were identified. Multitask classifiers incorporating biotype knowledge achieved higher area under the curve (AUD: 0.76, NUD: 0.74) than single-task classifiers without biotype differentiation (AUD: 0.61, NUD: 0.64). Cerebellar FC features were important in distinguishing the 3 biotypes. The biotype of mixed NUD/AUD with depression and anxiety demonstrated the largest number of FC features (n = 5), all related to the visual cortex, that significantly differed from healthy control participants and were validated in a replication sample (p < .05). A polymorphism in TNRC6A was associated with the mixed AUD/NUD biotype in both the discovery (p = 7.3 × 10-5) and replication (p = 4.2 × 10-2) sets.

CONCLUSIONS: Biotyping and multitask learning using FC features can characterize the clinical and genetic profiles of AUD and NUD and help identify cerebellar and visual circuit markers to differentiate the AUD/NUD group from the healthy control group. These markers support a new growing body of literature.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging - 9(2024), 3 vom: 03. März, Seite 326-336

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhu, Tan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Wuyi [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Kranzler, Henry R [VerfasserIn]
Li, Chiang-Shan R [VerfasserIn]
Bi, Jinbo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alcohol use disorder
Biotyping
Genetic association analysis
Journal Article
Machine learning
Nicotine use disorder
Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

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Date Completed 11.03.2024

Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bpsc.2023.08.010

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361939159