Additive gene-environment effects on hippocampal structure in healthy humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 9917-9926

  Rabl, Ulrich ^a   Meyer, Bernhard M ^a   Diers, Kersten ^b   Bartova, Lucie ^a   Berger, Andreas ^a   Mandorfer, Dominik ^a   Popovic, Ana ^a   Scharinger, Christian ^a   Huemer, Julia ^a   Kalcher, Klaudius ^a,c   Pail, Gerald ^a   Haslacher, Helmuth ^a   Perkmann, Thomas ^a   Windischberger, Christian ^a,c   Brocke, Burkhard ^b   Sitte, Harald H ^a   Pollak, Daniela D ^a   Dreher, Jean Claude ^d,e   Kasper, Siegfried ^a   Praschak Rieder, Nicole ^a   Moser, Ewald ^a,c   Esterbauer, Harald ^a   Pezawas, Lukas ^a   more..

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

^d INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

BDNF; COMT; Hippocampus; MRI; SLC6A4; Stress

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENOMIC DNA; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ALLELE; AMPLIFICATION REFRACTORY MUTATION SYSTEM POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN SIZE; DENTATE HILUS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE EVENT QUESTIONNAIRE; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

BDNF; COMT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MRI; SLC6A4; STRESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH STATUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904561107     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3113-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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