Thalamic shape: a possible endophenotype.

نویسندگان

  • Fidel Vila-Rodriguez
  • Leon French
  • Vilte Barakauskas
  • Carri-Lyn Mead
  • Babak Khorram
چکیده

Fidel Vila-Rodriguez,1 Leon French,2 Vilte Barakauskas,1 Carri-Lyn Mead,2,3 and Babak Khorram1 1Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 2A1, 2Bioinformatics Graduate Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5T 4S6, and 3Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5Z 1L3 Review of Harms et al. (http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/27/50/13835)

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

دوره 28 14  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008