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A twin study of intracerebral volumetric relationships.
Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 2010
Schmitt J Eric, Wallace Gregory L, Lenroot Rhoshel K, Ordaz Sarah E, Greenstein Dede, Clasen Liv, Kendler Kenneth S, Neale Michael C, Giedd Jay N
Abstract excerpt
Using high resolution magnetic resonance imaging data, we examined the interrelationships between eight cerebral lobar volumetric measures via both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in a large sample (N = 484) of pediatric twins and singletons. These analyses suggest the presence of strong genetic correlations between cerebral structures, particularly between regions of like tissue type or in spatial...
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