Development and heritability of subcortical brain volumes at ages 9 and 12

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 733-742

  Swagerman, S C ^a   Brouwer, R M ^b   de Geus, E J C ^a,c   Hulshoff Pol, H E ^b   Boomsma, D I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Bivariate model; Brain structure; Brain volume; Development; Heritability; Longitudinal; MRI; Subcortical; Twin

Indexed keywords

AGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBCORTEX; THALAMUS; TWINS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMYGDALA; CHILD; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGAN SIZE; SEX FACTORS; THALAMUS; TWINS;

EID: 84911381898     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12182     Document Type: Article

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