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SNPs correlated to the 17q21 signal show genome-wide association with adult intra cranial volume2, Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases3-5, indicating that a common genetic variant in this region might link early brain growth with neurological disease in later life.","journal":"WOS","year":2020,"id":142924,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9521,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":14662,"name":"George McMahon","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":21890,"name":"Albert Hofman","orcid":"0000-0002-9865-121X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":5161,"name":"Jari Lahti","orcid":"0000-0002-4310-5297","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":610536,"name":"Shikta Das","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":95035,"name":"Jonathan P. 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