Common variants underlying cognitive ability: Further evidence for association between the SNAP-25 gene and cognition using a family-based study in two independent Dutch cohorts

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-364

  Gosso, M F ^a,b   De Geus, E J C ^a   Polderman, T J C ^a,c   Boomsma, D I ^a,b   Heutink, P ^a,b   Posthuma, D ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(non)coding variants; Family based association; Genetics; Haplotype analysis; Intelligence; Synaptosomal

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 20; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRON; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTRONS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SYNAPTOSOMAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 41749097207     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2007.00359.x     Document Type: Article

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