Variation in the BDNF gene interacts with age to predict mortality in a prospective, longitudinal cohort with severe TBI

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 234-246

  Failla, Michelle D ^a,b   Kumar, Raj G ^a   Peitzman, Andrew B ^a   Conley, Yvette P ^b   Ferrell, Robert E ^c   Wagner, Amy K ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

age; BDNF; brain injury; genetic association study; mortality; TrkB

Indexed keywords

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

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; AGE; BRAIN INJURY; GENETICS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922289015     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314542617     Document Type: Article

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