Genetic associations between intelligence and cortical thickness emerge at the start of puberty

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3760-3773

  Brouwer, Rachel M ^a   van Soelen, Inge L C ^a,b,d   Swagerman, Suzanne C ^b   Schnack, Hugo G ^a   Ehli, Erik A ^c   Kahn, René S ^a   Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Avera Health   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Cerebral cortex; Genetic associations; Intelligence; Twins

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLECT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL STATUS; TWINS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WHITE MATTER; ZYGOSITY; ALLELE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE; ORGAN SIZE; REGISTER;

ALLELES; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGAN SIZE; PUBERTY; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84904008234     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22435     Document Type: Article

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