The brain-derived neurotrophic factor val66met polymorphism and variation in human cortical morphology

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 45, 2004, Pages 10099-10102

  Pezawas, Lukas ^a   Verchinski, Beth A ^a   Mattay, Venkata S ^a   Callicott, Joseph H ^a   Kolachana, Bhaskar S ^a   Straub, Richard E ^a   Egan, Michael F ^a   Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas ^a   Weinberger, Daniel R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer; BDNF; Down syndrome; Gene; Huntington; Imaging genomics; Memory; Morphometry; Neurotrophic; Schizophrenia; VBM; Voxel based

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORGAN SIZE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 8544249878     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2680-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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