NDLI: On the genetic architecture of cortical folding and brain volume in primates

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Author	Rogers, Jeffrey Peter, Kochunov Zilles, Karl Wendy, Shelledy Lancaster, Jack Thompson, Paul Ravindranath, Duggirala John, Blangero Fox, Peter T. Glahn, David C.
Abstract	Understanding the evolutionary forces that produced the human brain is a central problem in neuroscience and human biology. Comparisons across primate species show that both brain volume and gyrification (the degree of folding in the cerebral cortex) have progressively increased during primate evolution and there is a strong positive correlation between these two traits across primate species. The human brain is exceptional among primates in both total volume and gyrification, and therefore understanding the genetic mechanisms influencing variation in these traits will improve our understanding of a landmark feature of our species. Here we show that individual variation in gyrification is significantly heritable in both humans and an Old World monkey (baboons, Papio hamadryas). Furthermore, contrary to expectations based on the positive phenotypic correlation across species, the genetic correlation between cerebral volume and gyrification within both humans and baboons is estimated as negative. These results suggest that the positive relationship between cerebral volume and cortical folding across species cannot be explained by one set of selective pressures or genetic changes. Our data suggest that one set of selective pressures favored the progressive increase in brain volume documented in the primate fossil record, and that a second independent selective process, possibly related to parturition and neonatal brain size, may have favored brains with progressively greater cortical folding. Without a second separate selective pressure, natural selection favoring increased brain volume would be expected to produce less folded, more lissencephalic brains. These results provide initial evidence for the heritability of gyrification, and possibly a new perspective on the evolutionary mechanisms underlying long-term changes in the nonhuman primate and human brain.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.02.020
Ending Page	1108
Page Count	6
Starting Page	1103
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10538119
e-ISSN	10959572
Journal	NeuroImage
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	53
Language	English
Publisher Date	2010-11-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Cognitive Neuroscience Neurology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neurology Cognitive Neuroscience

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