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Carol E. Franz

Researcher at University of California, San Diego

Publications -  270
Citations -  10495

Carol E. Franz is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Twin study. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 227 publications receiving 8686 citations. Previous affiliations of Carol E. Franz include University of California, Davis & University of Southern California.

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O2‐05‐03: bmi changes from normal to obese over four decades predict thinner cortices in regions related to alzheimer's and related dementia

TL;DR: Vascular risk factors at younger ages and prolonged exposure among survivors appears to have detrimental effects on current and future brain volume, especially in women.
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Rare copy number variation in posttraumatic stress disorder

Adam X. Maihofer, +91 more
- 21 Sep 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this paper , a large-scale investigation of copy number variation (CNV) in PTSD has been performed, and the authors presented an association study of CNV burden and PTSD symptoms in a sample of 114,383 participants of European ancestry.

The cohort description of collaborative project of development of anthropometrical measures in twins (CODATwins) to study macro-environmental variation in genetic and environmental effects on anthropometric traits

Karri Silventoinen, +121 more
TL;DR: This project demonstrates that large-scale international twin studies are feasible and can promote the use of existing data for novel research purposes and to study the effects of birth-related factors, education and smoking on these anthropometric traits and whether these effects vary between twin cohorts.
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Authors’ Response to: Commentary by Johnson et al.

TL;DR: A response to a commentary by Johnson on the article ‘Early identification and heritability of mild cognitive impairment’, which pointed out that determining the optimal criteria set would require longitudinal trajectories, and that it would be valuable to assess people earlier (in midlife) than has been done in almost all previous studies.