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Lukas Pezawas1, Beth A Verchinski, Venkata S Mattay, Joseph H Callicott, Bhaskar S Kolachana, Richard E Straub, Michael F Egan, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Daniel R Weinberger.
Abstract
A variation in the BDNF gene (val66met) affects the function of BDNF in neurons, predicts variation in human memory, and is associated with several neurological and psychiatric disorders. Here, we show that, in magnetic resonance imaging scans of a large sample of normal individuals, this polymorphism affects the anatomy of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, identifying a genetic mechanism of variation in brain morphology related to learning and memory.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15537879 PMCID: PMC6730170 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2680-04.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurosci ISSN: 0270-6474 Impact factor: 6.167