Heritability of inhibitory gating of the p50 auditory-evoked potential in monozygotic and dizygotic twins

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 113-117

  Young, David A ^a   Waldo, Merilyne ^a   Rutledge, James H ^a   Freedman, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potential; Heritability; Likelihood profile; Monozygotic and dizygotic; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VARIANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHENOTYPE; TWINS;

EID: 0029973406     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: 14230224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000119260     Document Type: Article

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