Cerebral white matter in early puberty is associated with luteinizing hormone concentrations

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 909-915

  Peper, Jiska S ^a   Brouwer, Rachel M ^a   Schnack, Hugo G ^a   van Baal, G Caroline M ^a   van Leeuwen, Marieke ^b   van den Berg, Stéphanie M ^b   Delemarre Van de Waal, Henriëtte A ^c   Janke, Andrew L ^d   Collins, D Louis ^d   Evans, Alan C ^d   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b   Kahn, René S ^a   Pol, Hilleke E Hulshoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain structure; Luteinizing hormone; Puberty; Twins; Voxel based morphometry; White matter

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GRAY MATTER; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; REGISTRIES; TWINS;

EID: 48149094548     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.03.017     Document Type: Article

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