Morphometric network-based abnormalities correlate with psychiatric comorbidities and gene expression in PCDH19-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy

Author:

Guerrini Renzo1,Lenge Matteo,Balestrini Simona,Napolitano Antonio,Mei Davide,Conti Valerio,Baldassarri Giulia,Trivisano Marina,Pellacani Simona,Macconi Letizia,Longo Daniela,Espagnet Maria Camilla Rossi,Cappelletti Simona,d'Incerti Ludovico,Barba Carmen,Specchio Nicola

Affiliation:

1. Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS

Abstract

Abstract Protocadherin-19 (PCDH19) developmental and epileptic encephalopathy causes an early-onset epilepsy syndrome with limbic seizures, typically occurring in clusters and variably associated with intellectual disability and a range of psychiatric disorders including hyperactive, obsessive-compulsive and autistic features. Previous quantitative neuroimaging studies revealed abnormal cortical areas in the limbic formation (parahippocampal and fusiform gyri) and underlying white-matter fibers. In this study, we adopted morphometric, network-based and multivariate statistical methods to examine the cortex and substructure of the hippocampus and amygdala in a cohort of 20 PCDH19-mutated patients and evaluated the relation between structural patterns and clinical variables at individual level. We also correlated morphometric alterations with known patterns of PCDH19 expression levels. We found patients to exhibit high-significant reductions of cortical surface area at a whole-brain level (left/right pvalue=0.045/0.084), and particularly in the regions of the limbic network (left/right parahippocampal gyri pvalue=0.230/0.016; left/right entorhinal gyri pvalue=0.002/0.327), and bilateral atrophy of several subunits of the amygdala and hippocampus, particularly in the CA regions (head of the left CA3 pvalue=0.002; body of the right CA3 pvalue=0.004), and differences in the shape of hippocampal structures. More severe psychiatric comorbidities correlated with more significant altered patterns, with the entorhinal gyrus (pvalue=0.013) and body of hippocampus (pvalue=0.048) being more severely affected. Morphometric alterations correlated significantly with the known expression patterns of PCDH19 (rvalue=-0.26, pvalue=0.034). PCDH19 encephalopathy represents a model of genetically determined neural network based neuropsychiatric disease in which quantitative MRI-based findings correlate with the severity of clinical manifestations and had have a potential predictive value if analyzed early.

Publisher

Research Square Platform LLC

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