Genetic variation on the BDNF gene is not associated with differences in white matter tracts in healthy humans measured by tract-based spatial statistics

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 886-891

  Montag, C ^a   Schoene Bake, J C ^a   Faber, J ^a   Reuter, M ^a   Weber, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

BDNF Val66Met; Diffusion tensor imaging; EPQ R; Genetic imaging; Personality; Structural imaging; Tract based spatial statistics; White matter tract integrity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; ORGAN SIZE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78349278824     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2010.00626.x     Document Type: Article

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