Heritability of white matter microstructure in late middle age: A twin study of tract-based fractional anisotropy and absolute diffusivity indices

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 2026-2036

  Vuoksimaa, Eero ^a,b,c   Panizzon, Matthew S ^a,b   Hagler, Donald J ^d   Hatton, Sean N ^a,b   Fennema Notestine, Christine ^a,d   Rinker, Daniel ^a,d,e   Eyler, Lisa T ^a,f   Franz, Carol E ^a,b   Lyons, Michael J ^g   Neale, Michael C ^h   Tsuang, Ming T ^a,b   Dale, Anders M ^d,i   Kremen, William S ^a,b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^g BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute diffusivity; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Genetic effects; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN STUDY; TWINS; WHITE MATTER; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INHERITANCE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ANISOTROPY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 85007484167     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23502     Document Type: Article

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