Lateralized genetic and environmental influences on human brain morphology of 8-year-old twins

NeuroImage

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1117-1125

  Yoon, Uicheul ^a   Fahim, Cherine ^a   Perusse, Daniel ^b   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical thickness; Genetic effect; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pediatric twin; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC REGULATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INSULA; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBICULUM;

BRAIN; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TWINS;

EID: 77956195660     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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