Association study of common mitochondrial variants and cognitive ability

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 504-512

  Byrne, Enda M ^a,b   McRae, Allan F ^a   Duffy, David L ^a   Zhao, Zhen Zhen ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^a   Wright, Margaret J ^a   Montgomery, Grant W ^a   Visscher, Peter M ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Association; Australian; Cognition; Mitochondria; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; PHENOTYPE; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TWINS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

MUS;

EID: 69049097040     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-009-9276-x     Document Type: Article

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