Magnified effects of the COMT gene on white-matter microstructure in very old age

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2927-2938

  Papenberg, Goran ^a,b   Lövdén, Martin ^a,b   Laukka, Erika J ^a   Kalpouzos, Grégoria ^a   Keller, Lina ^a   Graff, Caroline ^a,c   Köhncke, Ylva ^a   Li, Tie Qiang ^c   Fratiglioni, Laura ^a,d   Bäckman, Lars ^a,d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; COMT; Dopamine; DTI; White matter integrity

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; COMT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HEREDITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER MICROSTRUCTURE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84940610045     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0835-4     Document Type: Article

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