Altered Structural Brain Connectivity in Healthy Carriers of the Autism Risk Gene, CNTNAP2

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 447-459

  Dennis, Emily L ^a   Jahanshad, Neda ^a   Rudie, Jeffrey D ^b   Brown, Jesse A ^b   Johnson, Kori ^c,d   Mcmahon, Katie L ^c   de Zubicaray, Greig I ^c   Montgomery, Grant ^d   Martin, Nicholas G ^d   Wright, Margaret J ^c,d   Bookheimer, Susan Y ^b   Dapretto, Mirella ^b   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Thompson, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

autism; CNTNAP2; graph theory; HARDI; structural connectivity; twins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887818393     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2011.0064     Document Type: Article

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