Genetic and environmental influences on cortical thickness among 14-year-old twins

NeuroReport

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 702-706

  Yang, Yaling ^a   Joshi, Anand A ^a   Joshi, Shantanu H ^a   Baker, Laura A ^b   Narr, Katherine L ^c   Raine, Adrian ^d   Thompson, Paul M ^e   Damasio, Hanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering   (United States)

^c Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent twins; cortical thickness; heritability; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CORTICAL THICKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TWINS;

EID: 84863856533     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328355a62a     Document Type: Article

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