CHIMGEN: a Chinese imaging genetics cohort to enhance cross-ethnic and cross-geographic brain research.

ABSTRACT: The Chinese Imaging Genetics (CHIMGEN) study establishes the largest Chinese neuroimaging genetics cohort and aims to identify genetic and environmental factors and their interactions that are associated with neuroimaging and behavioral phenotypes. This study prospectively collected genomic, neuroimaging, environmental, and behavioral data from more than 7000 healthy Chinese Han participants aged 18-30 years. As a pioneer of large-sample neuroimaging genetics cohorts of non-Caucasian populations, this cohort can provide new insights into ethnic differences in genetic-neuroimaging associations by being compared with Caucasian cohorts. In addition to micro-environmental measurements, this study also collects hundreds of quantitative macro-environmental measurements from remote sensing and na

SUBMITTER: Xu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7042768 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature