Tumor necrosis factor gene variation predicts hippocampus volume in healthy individuals

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 655-662

  Baune, Bernhard T ^a   Konrad, Carsten ^b   Grotegerd, Dominik ^c   Suslow, Thomas ^c,d   Ohrmann, Patricia ^c   Bauer, Jochen ^c   Arolt, Volker ^c   Heindel, Walter ^c   Domschke, Katharina ^c   Schöning, Sonja ^c   Rauch, Astrid Veronika ^c   Sehlmeyer, Christina ^c   Kugel, Harald ^c   Dannlowski, Udo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; imaging genetics; MRI; neurodegeneration; TNF; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866598274     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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