The Genetic Contributions to Maturational Coupling in the Human Cerebrum: A Longitudinal Pediatric Twin Imaging Study

Although prior studies have demonstrated that genetic factors play the dominant role in the patterning of the pediatric brain, it remains unclear how these patterns change over time. Using 1748 longitudinal anatomic MRI scans from 792 healthy twins and siblings, we quantified how genetically mediated inter-regional associations change over time via multivariate longitudinal structural equation modeling. These analyses found that genetic...