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Background <p>Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a heterogeneous disorder with significant individual variabilities in clinical and biological features. Abnormal inter-regional structural covariance suggests disruption of the brain structural network in MCI. Most studies have examined group-level structural covariance alterations while ignoring individual-level differences. Hence, we aimed to investigate the heterogeneity of MCI using individual differential structural covariance network (IDSCN) analysis.</p> Methods <p>T1-weighted images of 596 MCI patients and 309 cognitively normal (CN) were collected from the ADNI database as discovery dataset, and 122 MCI and 117 CN from the OASIS-3 dataset as validation cohort. We constructed each patient’s IDSCN using regional gray matter volume and applied K-means clustering analysis to identify MCI subtypes based on significantly altered covariance edges. Then, clinical features, brain structure, and gene expression profiles were evaluated for each subtype.</p> Results <p>In the ADNI dataset, MCI patients exhibited significant alterations in structural covariance edges, mainly involving the hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and amygdala. Two robust MCI subtypes were identified. Subtype 1 showed faster disease progression relative to subtype 2, which was validated in the independent OASIS-3 dataset. Significant differences between two subtypes were found in clinical cognition and biomarkers, cerebral atrophy patterns, and enriched genes for metal ion transport and neuron projection development. Finally, correlation analysis and functional annotation further revealed that the affected edges were related to cognitive performance and implicated in memory and emotion terms.</p> Conclusions <p>In summary, these findings offer new perspectives into understanding the heterogeneity of MCI and facilitate strategies for future precision medicine.</p>

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Revealing heterogeneity in mild cognitive impairment based on individualized structural covariance network

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    2025年5月15日

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  • Xiaotong Wei,
  • Ronglong Xiong,
  • Ping Xu,
  • Tingting Zhang,
  • Junjun Zhang,
  • Zhenlan Jin,
  • Ling Li

摘要

Background

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a heterogeneous disorder with significant individual variabilities in clinical and biological features. Abnormal inter-regional structural covariance suggests disruption of the brain structural network in MCI. Most studies have examined group-level structural covariance alterations while ignoring individual-level differences. Hence, we aimed to investigate the heterogeneity of MCI using individual differential structural covariance network (IDSCN) analysis.

Methods

T1-weighted images of 596 MCI patients and 309 cognitively normal (CN) were collected from the ADNI database as discovery dataset, and 122 MCI and 117 CN from the OASIS-3 dataset as validation cohort. We constructed each patient’s IDSCN using regional gray matter volume and applied K-means clustering analysis to identify MCI subtypes based on significantly altered covariance edges. Then, clinical features, brain structure, and gene expression profiles were evaluated for each subtype.

Results

In the ADNI dataset, MCI patients exhibited significant alterations in structural covariance edges, mainly involving the hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and amygdala. Two robust MCI subtypes were identified. Subtype 1 showed faster disease progression relative to subtype 2, which was validated in the independent OASIS-3 dataset. Significant differences between two subtypes were found in clinical cognition and biomarkers, cerebral atrophy patterns, and enriched genes for metal ion transport and neuron projection development. Finally, correlation analysis and functional annotation further revealed that the affected edges were related to cognitive performance and implicated in memory and emotion terms.

Conclusions

In summary, these findings offer new perspectives into understanding the heterogeneity of MCI and facilitate strategies for future precision medicine.