Genetic variation of the RASGRF1 regulatory region affects human hippocampus-dependent memory

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Barman, Adriana ^a   Assmann, Anne ^a,b   Richter, Sylvia ^c   Soch, Joram ^a,b,d   Schütze, Hartmut ^b   Wüstenberg, Torsten ^e   Deibele, Anna ^a,b   Klein, Marieke ^a,f   Richter, Anni ^a   Behnisch, Gusalija ^a   Düzel, Emrah ^b,g,h   Zenker, Martin ^b   Seidenbecher, Constanze I ^a,h   Schott, Björn H ^a,b,e,h  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g Helmholtz Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases   (Germany)

^h Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; fMRI; Genetic variation; Hippocampus; RASGRF1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MYOPIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; RAS SPECIFIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE RELEASING FACTOR 1 GENE; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; VERBAL LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

EID: 84899705124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00260     Document Type: Article

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