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White matter integrity in the splenium of the corpus callosum is related to successful cognitive aging and partly mediates the protective effect of an ancestral polymorphism in ADRB2.
Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 2010
Penke Lars, Muñoz Maniega Susana, Houlihan Lorna M, Murray Catherine, Gow Alan J, Clayden Jonathan D, Bastin Mark E, Wardlaw Joanna M, Deary Ian J
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It has recently been reported that the evolutionarily ancestral alleles of two functional polymorphisms in the beta(2)-adrenergic receptor gene (ADRB2) were related to higher cognitive ability in the 70 year old participants of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936). One emerging important facto...
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