A genome-wide search for quantitative trait loci affecting the cortical surface area and thickness of Heschl's gyrus

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 675-685

  Cai, D C ^a,b,c,d   Fonteijn, H ^b,c   Guadalupe, T ^b   Zwiers, M ^c,e   Wittfeld, K ^f   Teumer, A ^g   Hoogman, M ^b,c,e   Arias Vasquez A ^c,e   Yang, Y ^a   Buitelaar, J ^c,e   Fernandez G ^c,e   Brunner, H G ^c,e   van Bokhoven, H ^c,e   Franke, B ^c,e   Hegenscheid, K ^g   Homuth, G ^g   Fisher, S E ^b,c   Grabe, H J ^f,g   Francks, C ^b,c   Hagoort, P ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory network; Genetics; Genome wide association scan; Heschl's gyrus; Language network; Magnetic resonance imaging; Speech processing; Surface based

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORTICAL SURFACE AREA; CORTICAL SURFACE THICKNESS; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HESCHL GYRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; WHOLE BODY MRI; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUDITORY CORTEX; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MIDDLE AGED;

CBLL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DCBLD2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; KALRN PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POU3F4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 84907813411     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12157     Document Type: Article

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