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@ARTICLE{Hopkins:1052067,
author = {Hopkins, William D. and Achorn, Angela and Fults, Courtney
L. and Vickery, Sam and Hoffstaedter, Felix},
title = {{H}eritability of gray matter volume and asymmetry in
chimpanzees ({P}an troglodytes) and their association to
cognitive abilities and tool use},
journal = {Brain structure $\&$ function},
volume = {231},
number = {1},
issn = {1863-2653},
address = {Heidelberg},
publisher = {Springer},
reportid = {FZJ-2026-00737},
pages = {5},
year = {2026},
abstract = {Genetic studies have increasingly identified key mechanisms
that underlie individual and phylogenetic variation in
behavioral and brain phenotypes. Here, we used quantitative
genetics to estimate heritability in whole brain and
region-specific variation in gray matter in a sample of
captive chimpanzees. We included the contributions of sex
and age to individual variation in gray matter as well as
their association with cognition and motor functions and
found small to moderate heritability in average gray matter
volume in the majority of brain regions. By contrast, weaker
estimates of heritability were found when considering
asymmetries in gray matter across brain regions. Age was
inversely associated with gray matter volume for the frontal
lobe and the basal forebrain after accounting for sex and
relatedness of the chimpanzees. Chimpanzees that had higher
cognition scores were found to have greater leftward
asymmetries in the regions comprising the frontal lobe and
basal forebrain component. Further, chimpanzees with better
performance on a tool use task had higher gray matter
volumes in the frontal and basal forebrain regions. However,
no genetic associations were found between tool use
performance or cognition and the average frontal or basal
forebrain gray matter volumes or asymmetry.},
cin = {INM-7},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {5251 - Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability
(POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5251},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1007/s00429-025-03061-w},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1052067},
}