Heritability of regional and global brain structure at the onset of puberty: A magnetic resonance imaging study in 9-year-old twin pairs

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2184-2196

  Peper, Jiska S ^d   Schnack, Hugo G ^d   Brouwer, Rachel M ^d   Van Baal, G Caroline M ^d   Pjetri, Eneda ^d   Székely, Eszter ^d   Van Leeuwen, Marieke ^a   Van Den Berg, Stéphanie M ^b   Collins, D Louis ^c   Evans, Alan C ^c   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   Kahn, Renés ^d   Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain structure; Heritability; Puberty; Twins; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PUBERTY; REGISTRIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 67649658053     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20660     Document Type: Article

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