Brain structure in men remains highly heritable in the seventh and eighth decades of life

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-74

  Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a   Sullivan, Edith V ^b   Swan, Gary E ^a   Carmelli, Dorit ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain morphology; Corpus callosum; Genetics; Heritability; MRI; Twins

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMANS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHENOTYPE; TIME; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0034594490     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(00)00086-5     Document Type: Article

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