Quantitative genetic modeling of regional brain volumes and cognitive performance in older male twins

Biological Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 139-155

  Carmelli, Dorit ^a   Swan, Gary E ^a   DeCarli, Charles ^b   Reed, Terry ^c  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Male twins; Quantitative genetic modeling; Regional brain volumes

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TWINS; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036776027     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(02)00056-X     Document Type: Article

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