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Common variants at 6q22 and 17q21 are associated with intracranial volume
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Common variants at 6q22 and 17q21 are associated with intracranial volume

M. Arfan Ikram, Myriam Fornage, Albert V Smith, Sudha Seshadri, Reinhold Schmidt, Stéphanie Debette, Henri A Vrooman, Sigurdur Sigurdsson, Stefan Ropele, H. Rob Taal, …
Nature genetics, Vol.44(5), pp.539-544
05/01/2012
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2245
PMCID: PMC3618290
PMID: 22504418

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Abstract

During aging, intracranial volume remains unchanged and represents maximally attained brain size, while various interacting biological phenomena lead to brain volume loss. Consequently, intracranial volume and brain volume in late life reflect different genetic influences. Our genome-wide association study in 8,175 community-dwelling elderly did not reveal any genome-wide significant associations (p<5*10

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