White Matter Hyperintensities Are under Strong Genetic Influence

Stroke

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1422-1428

  Sachdev, Perminder S ^a,b   Thalamuthu, Anbupalam ^a   Mather, Karen A ^a   Ames, David ^c   Wright, Margaret J ^d,e   Wen, Wei ^a,b   Bowden, Jocelyn ^f   Lee, Teresa ^f   Brodaty, Henry ^f   Crawford, John ^f   Duckworth, Tanya ^f   Kang, Kristan ^f   Garden, Natalie ^f   Martin, Nick ^f   Lemmon, Christel ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

aging; epidemiology; heritable quantitative trait; magnetic resonance imaging; white matter

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; AGING; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TWINS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84966704745     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.012532     Document Type: Article

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