Normal variants of Microcephalin and ASPM do not account for brain size variability

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2025-2029

  Woods, Roger P ^a,c   Freimer, Nelson B ^b   De Young, Joseph A ^a   Fears, Scott C ^a,b   Sicotte, Nancy L ^a   Service, Susan K ^b   Valentino, Daniel J ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Mazziotta, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL SPINDLE LIKE MICROCEPHALY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DNA; MICROCEPHALIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROCEPHALY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SIZE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 33745591150     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl126     Document Type: Article

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