Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 694297, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/694297
Research Article

Statistical Analysis of Twin Populations using Dissimilarity Measurements in Hippocampus Shape Space

Youngser Park,1 Carey E. Priebe,1 Michael I. Miller,1 Nikhil R. Mohan,1 and Kelly N. Botteron2

1Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 21218, MD, USA
2Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis 63110, MO, USA

Received 19 July 2007; Accepted 19 November 2007

Academic Editor: Daniel Howard

Copyright © 2008 Youngser Park et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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