White matter integrity in the splenium of the corpus callosum is related to successful cognitive aging and partly mediates the protective effect of an ancestral polymorphism in ADRB2

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 146-156

  Penke, Lars ^a   Maniega, Susana Muñoz ^a   Houlihan, Lorna M ^a   Murray, Catherine ^a   Gow, Alan J ^a   Clayden, Jonathan D ^b   Bastin, Mark E ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ADRB2; Cognitive aging; Comparative genomics; Diffusion tensor MRI; Splenium corpus callosum; White matter tractography

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PLESIOMORPHY; SENESCENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPLENIUM CORPUS CALLOSUM; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA-2;

EID: 77949267639     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-009-9318-4     Document Type: Article

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