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DISC1 is associated with cortical thickness and neural efficiency.
NeuroImage - 15 Aug 2011
Brauns Stefan, Gollub Randy L, Roffman Joshua L, Yendiki Anastasia, Ho Beng-Choon, Wassink Thomas H, Heinz Andreas, Ehrlich Stefan
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BACKGROUND: Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is known to play a major role during brain development and is a candidate gene for schizophrenia. Cortical thickness is highly heritable and several MRI studies have shown widespread reductions of cortical thickness in patients with schizophrenia. Here, we investigated the effects of variation in DISC1 on cortical thickness. In a subsequent analysis we tested...
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