Creating a Pediatric Imaging-Genomics Data Resource; PING (Pediatric Imaging Neurocognition & Genetics) Study

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1. Resource Description

   This study was funded through the President’s stimulus funding from the NIH. The goal is to evaluate how genes may influence brain development. This is a multicenter study that will involve investigators from 9 participating sites: University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI University of San Diego, CA Johns Hopkins University/Kennedy Kreiger Institute, MD Yale University, CT Cornell University/Sackler Institute, NY University of California Los Angeles, CA University of California Davis, CA University of Massachusetts, MA Massachusetts General Hospital, MA Together, they will study 1400 children using advanced MRI techniques, the NIH Toolbox to assess cognitive function and screening of genes in the saliva.

2. Contact

   Pritchett, Lexi

3. PI

   Chang, Linda

4. Topic

   Brain development

5. Topic

   Neurotransmitter metabolic process

6. Funded by

   National Institutes of Health

7. Performed by

   Linda Chang Laboratory