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Association of relative brain age with tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, and genetic variants.
Scientific reports - 30 Jan 2020
Ning Kaida, Zhao Lu, Matloff Will, Sun Fengzhu, Toga Arthur W
Abstract excerpt
Brain age is a metric that quantifies the degree of aging of a brain based on whole-brain anatomical characteristics. While associations between individual human brain regions and environmental or genetic factors have been investigated, how brain age is associated with those factors remains unclear. We investigated these associations using UK Biobank data. We first trained a statistical model for obtaining...
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