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Heritability of regional and global brain structure at the onset of puberty: a magnetic resonance imaging study in 9-year-old twin pairs.
Human brain mapping - 1 Jul 2009
Peper Jiska S, Schnack Hugo G, Brouwer Rachel M, Van Baal G Caroline M, Pjetri Eneda, Székely Eszter, van Leeuwen Marieke, van den Berg Stéphanie M, Collins D Louis, Evans Alan C, Boomsma Dorret I, Kahn René S, Hulshoff Pol Hilleke E
Abstract excerpt
Puberty represents the phase of sexual maturity, signaling the change from childhood into adulthood. During childhood and adolescence, prominent changes take place in the brain. Recently, variation in frontal, temporal, and parietal areas was found to be under varying genetic control between 5 and 19 years of age. However, at the onset of puberty, the extent to which variation in brain structures is influenced by...
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