Heritability of structural brain network topology: A DTI study of 156 twins

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5295-5305

  Bohlken, Marc M ^a   Mandl, René C W ^a   Brouwer, Rachel M ^a   van den Heuvel, Martijn P ^a   Hedman, Anna M ^a   Kahn, René S ^a   Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DTI; Heritability; Network; Twin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NETWORK TOPOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENDOPHENOTYPE; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROIMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TWINS; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84916625891     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22550     Document Type: Article

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