Genetic variants and cognitive aging: Destiny or a nudge?

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 359-362

  Raz, Naftali ^a   Lustig, Cindy ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Genetics; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Vascular risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; COGNITION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; LIFESTYLE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; COGNITION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84902957373     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036893     Document Type: Article

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