Cortical folding of the primate brain: An interdisciplinary examination of the genetic architecture, modularity, and evolvability of a significant neurological trait in pedigreed baboons (genus papio)

Genetics

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 651-665

  Atkinson, Elizabeth G ^a   Rogers, Jeffrey ^b   Mahaney, Michael C ^c,d   Cox, Laura A ^d   Cheverud, James M ^a,e  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Evolution; Gyrification; Heritability; Modularity; Papio hamadryas; Primate brain; Qtl

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BABOON; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL GYRIFICATION; DOWN SYNDROME; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PAPIO; PEDIGREE; PRIMATES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84931362650     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.173443     Document Type: Article

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