Population Differences in Brain Morphology and Microstructure among Chinese, Malay, and Indian Neonates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Bai, Jordan ^a   Abdul Rahman, Muhammad Farid ^a   Rifkin Graboi, Anne ^b   Chong, Yap Seng ^c   Kwek, Kenneth ^d   Saw, Seang Mei ^a   Godfrey, Keith M ^e   Gluckman, Peter D ^f   Fortier, Marielle V ^d   Meaney, Michael J ^b,g   Qiu, Anqi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDIAN; MALAY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868097961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047816     Document Type: Article

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