Developmental white matter microstructure in autism phenotype and corresponding endophenotype during adolescence

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Lisiecka, D M ^a   Holt, R ^b   Tait, R ^a   Ford, M ^c   Lai, M C ^b,d   Chura, L R ^b   Baron Cohen, S ^a,b,e   Spencer, M D ^b,f   Suckling, J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f WEST SUFFOLK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; AGE; AUTISM; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENDOPHENOTYPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIBLING; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENDOPHENOTYPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SIBLINGS; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937838227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/TP.2015.23     Document Type: Article

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