Neuroanatomic Variation in Monozygotic Twin Pairs Discordant for the Narrow Phenotype for Autism

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 539-546

  Kates, Wendy R ^a   Burnette, Courtney P ^b   Eliez, Stephan ^b   Strunge, Leslie Abbott ^b   Kaplan, Desmond ^b   Landa, Rebecca ^b   Reiss, Allan L ^b   Pearlson, Godfrey D ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TWIN DISCORDANCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASES IN TWINS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHENOTYPE; REFERENCE VALUES; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 1542283789     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.161.3.539     Document Type: Article

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