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      Brain structure, phenotypic and genetic correlates of reading performance 

      Carrión-Castillo, Amaia; Paz-Alonso, Pedro M.; Carreiras, Manuel (NATURE RESEARCH, 2023)
      Reading is an evolutionarily recent development that recruits and tunes brain circuitry connecting primary- and language-processing regions. We investigated whether metrics of the brain’s physical structure correlate with ...
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      Handedness and its genetic influences are associated with structural asymmetries of the cerebral cortex in 31,864 individuals 

      Sha, Zhiqiang; Pepe, Antonietta; Schijven, Dick; Carrión-Castillo, Amaia; Roe, James M.; Westerhausen, René; Joliot, Marc; Fisher, Simon E.; Crivello, Fabrice; Francks, Clyde (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021)
      Roughly 10% of the human population is left-handed, and this rate is increased in some brain-related disorders. The neuroanatomical correlates of hand preference have remained equivocal. We resampled structural brain ...
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      Insights into the genetic architecture of cerebellar lobules derived from the UK Biobank 

      Carrión-Castillo, Amaia; Boeckx, Cedric (NATURE, 2024)
      In this work we endeavor to further understand the genetic architecture of the cerebellum by examining the genetic underpinnings of the different cerebellar lob(ul)es, identifying their genetic relation to cortical and ...
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      The genetic architecture of language functional connectivity 

      Mekki, Yasmina; Guillemot, Vincent; Lemaître, Hervé; Carrión-Castillo, Amaia; Forkel, Stephanie; Frouin, Vincent; Philippe, Cathy (ELSEVIER, 2022)
      Language is a unique trait of the human species, of which the genetic architecture remains largely unknown. Through language disorders studies, many candidate genes were identified. However, such complex and multi- factorial ...