Heritability of volumetric brain changes and height in children entering puberty

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 713-725

  Van Soelen, Inge L C ^a,b   Brouwer, Rachel M ^a   Van Baal, G Caroline M ^a   Schnack, Hugo G ^a   Peper, Jiska S ^c   Chen, Lei ^a   Kahn, René S ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a,b   Pol, Hilleke E Hulshoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Development; Height; Heritability; Human brain; Longitudinal twin study; MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GRAY MATTER; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; TWIN ZYGOSITY; WHITE MATTER;

BODY HEIGHT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84873467273     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21468     Document Type: Article

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