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abstract：:In this study we examined cross-sectional age differences in means, phenotypic covariance structure, and the underlying genetic and environmental structure of four personality constructs from Cloninger's personality system: Novelty Seeking (NS), Harm Avoidance (HA), Reward Dependence (RD), and Persistence (PS). Study ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Heiman N,Stallings MC,Hofer SM,Hewitt JK

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygous staggerer mice (Rora(+)/Rora(sg)) and control mice (Rora(+)/Rora(+)) of the same C57BL/6J strain background were tested in a spontaneous alternation task at 3 to 24 months old. The results demonstrated a decrement in long-term working memory as early as 6 months in Rora(+)/Rora(+) mice and at 3 months in ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Caston J,Chianale C,Mariani J

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes involved in melatonin synthesis, such as Aa-nat, may be important for our understanding of diurnal preference and circadian rhythm disturbances in humans. In Japan, Hohjoh et al. reported increased allelic frequencies of the 619A allele of the G619A Aa-nat gene polymorphism in a sample of Delayed Sleep Phase Syn...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Pereira DS,Pedrazzoli M,Koike Bdel V,Louzada FM,Benedito-Silva AA,Lopez AR,Tufik S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports the results of 11 generations of selective breeding for isolation-induced, interfemale aggression in Mus musculus. Within-family selection was used to form two high, two low, and two unselected control lines, beginning with a population of wild-trapped mice. Selection was successful in establishin...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Hyde JS,Sawyer TF

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a common condition in women that is difficult to diagnose. Although heritability estimates have been published for some conditions potentially underlying pelvic pain, the heritability of CPP itself has never been investigated. Using data from 623 MZ and 377 DZ female twin pairs aged 29-50 ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Zondervan KT,Cardon LR,Kennedy SH,Martin NG,Treloar SA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from two twin studies were used to address two related questions. First, is there any association between handedness and specific speech and language impairment (SSLI) in children? Second, is there genetic influence on individual differences in handedness and, if so, are the same genes implicated in the cause of ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Bishop DV

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretation of studies using single gene mutants is complicated by possible epistatic interactions with genetic background. Dopamine D2 receptor (Drd2) knockout mice on a C57BL/6 (B6) background show decreased basal locomotion, ethanol preference and ethanol-induced ataxia. Epistatic interactions were studied by ex...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Palmer AA,Low MJ,Grandy DK,Phillips TJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the genetic architecture of prepubertal development of relative weight to height in 216 monozygotic and 159 dizygotic complete Japanese twin pairs (52% girls). Ponderal index at birth (kg/m(3)) and body mass index (BMI, kg/m(2)) from 1 to 11 years of age were used. Additive genetic factors explained the ma...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Silventoinen K,Kaprio J,Yokoyama Y

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the period of the environmental cycle during gestation and infancy on the circadian period of adult hamsters was studied. Tau-mutant hamsters of all three genotypes (+/+, 24-h circadian period; +/tau, 22-h period; tau/tau, 20-h period) were conceived and raised under either a 20-h light-dark cycle or a 24-...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Refinetti R

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common SNPs in nicotinic acetylcholine receptor genes (CHRN genes) have been associated with drug behaviors and personality traits, but the influence of rare genetic variants is not well characterized. The goal of this project was to identify novel rare variants in CHRN genes in the Center for Antisocial Drug Dependen...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Kamens HM,Corley RP,Richmond PA,Darlington TM,Dowell R,Hopfer CJ,Stallings MC,Hewitt JK,Brown SA,Ehringer MA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human facial attractiveness and facial sexual dimorphism (masculinity-femininity) are important facets of mate choice and are hypothesized to honestly advertise genetic quality. However, it is unclear whether genes influencing facial attractiveness and masculinity-femininity have similar, opposing, or independent effe...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Mitchem DG,Purkey AM,Grebe NM,Carey G,Garver-Apgar CE,Bates TC,Arden R,Hewitt JK,Medland SE,Martin NG,Zietsch BP,Keller MC

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Workers from colonies of Cape honeybees show marked phenotypic differences in performance in proboscis extension reflex (PER) conditioning. Analysis of these differences using parthenogenetic offspring groups permitted the estimation of genotypic values and revealed a high degree of genetic variability that is evident...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Brandes C

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our genetic knowledge of a species is reflected in the state of its gene map. Although still primitive, relative to the gene map of the mouse, great strides have been made in recent years in developing the gene map of the rat and nine linkage groups have now been defined. Mapping by conventional backcrossing methods h...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Womack JE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model based on the latent class model is developed for the effects of genes and environment on multivariate categorical data in twins. The model captures many essential features of dimensional and categorical conceptions of complex behavioral phenotypes and can include, as special cases, a variety of major locus mod...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Eaves LJ,Silberg JL,Hewitt JK,Rutter M,Meyer JM,Neale MC,Pickles A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission of social attitudes has been investigated as a possible model of cultural inheritance in a sample of 3810 twin pairs from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Twin Registry. Six social attitude factors were identified and univariate genetic models fitted to scores on each factor. A join...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Truett KR,Eaves LJ,Meyer JM,Heath AC,Martin NG

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome wide complex trait analysis (GCTA) is extended to include environmental effects of the maternal genotype on offspring phenotype ("maternal effects", M-GCTA). The model includes parameters for the direct effects of the offspring genotype, maternal effects and the covariance between direct and maternal effects. A...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Eaves LJ,Pourcain BS,Smith GD,York TP,Evans DM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zebrafish enjoys several advantages over other model organisms. It is small, easy to maintain, prolific, and numerous genetic tools are available for it. For example, forward genetic screens have allowed investigators to identify important genes potentially involved in a variety of functions from embryogenesis to ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Gerlai R,Poshusta TL,Rampersad M,Fernandes Y,Greenwood TM,Cousin MA,Klee EW,Clark KJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an investigation into the effects of developmental isolation from all conspecifics, the Drosophila willistoni group of six sibling species responded to differing degrees: all six are reproductively isolated from D. paulistorum, the tester species. Drosophila pavlovskiana, a narrow endemic, proved the most vulnerabl...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Kim YK,Ehrman L

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3) route is one of the two main transduction cascades that mediate olfactory reception in Drosophila melanogaster. The activity of IP3 kinase1 reduces the levels of this substrate by phosphorylation into inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakiphosphate (IP4). We show here that the gene is expressed...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Gomez-Diaz C,Martin F,Alcorta E

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report analyses of data on body fat from a cohort of 34 separated monozygotic twin pairs (MZA) and a matched sample of 38 pairs of monozygotic twins reared together (MZT) originally studied by James Shields. The correlation for MZA pairs was .61 and the correlation for MZT pairs was .75. These correlations did not ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Price RA,Gottesman II

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extreme sampling of sibling pairs has been shown to be efficient in terms of statistical power and sample sizes (in number of sibling pairs needed to genotype) to detect a quantitative trait locus (QTL) when the residual distribution is normal. In the present study, the efficiency of extreme sampling strategies to det...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Heo M,Faith MS,Allison DB

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central issue in psychiatric genetics is whether positive findings replicate. Zubenko et al. (2002b, Mol. Psychiatry 7:460-467) reported an association of the 124-bp allele of D2S2944 with recurrent early-onset major depression for females. We tested for association of this allele to continuous measures of anxiety, ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Beem AL,Geus EJ,Hottenga JJ,Sullivan PF,Willemsen G,Slagboom PE,Boomsma DI

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in gamma aminobutyric acid receptor alpha 2 (GABRA2) and adolescent conduct disorder (CD) and alcohol dependence in adulthood, but not adolescent alcohol dependence. The present study was intended as a replication and extension of ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Melroy WE,Stephens SH,Sakai JT,Kamens HM,McQueen MB,Corley RP,Stallings MC,Hopfer CJ,Krauter KS,Brown SA,Hewitt JK,Ehringer MA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current behavior genetic models can only employ limited types of phenotypic data, such as Likert scale data or continuous data, as variables. Here, a new method employing paired comparison data is presented within the framework of behavior genetic models. This model facilitates the estimation of genetic, shared enviro...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Ozaki K

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Offspring outcomes are a function of maternal genetics operating on the intrauterine and postnatal environment, offspring genetics and environmental factors. Partitioning genetic effects into maternal and offspring components requires genotyped mother-offspring pairs or genotyped individuals with phenotypic informatio...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Moen GH,Hemani G,Warrington NM,Evans DM

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic strains of mice represent an important resource for research on the biological determinants of complex diseases and behavioral phenotypes. To date, the approaches used have had little success in identifying causal genes. We have evaluated brain gene expression in C57BL/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (D2) inbred mouse stra...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Treadwell JA,Pagniello KB,Singh SM

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the participants in the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) we constructed the extended pedigrees which specify all relations among nuclear and larger twin families in the register. A total of 253,015 subjects from 58,645 families were linked to each other, to the degree that we had information on the relations among ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Boomsma DI,Helmer Q,Nieuwboer HA,Hottenga JJ,de Moor MH,van den Berg SM,Davies GE,Vink JM,Schouten MJ,Dolan CV,Willemsen G,Bartels M,van Beijsterveldt TCEM,Ligthart L,de Geus EJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge about the proportion of markers without effects (p( 0 )) and the effect sizes in large scale genetic studies is important to understand the basic properties of the data and for applications such as the control of false discoveries and designing adequately powered replication studies. Many p(0) estimators hav...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Bukszár J,van den Oord EJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manipulation of endogenous levels of the GABAergic neurosteroid allopregnanolone alters sensitivity to some effects of ethanol. Chronic ethanol withdrawal decreases activity and expression of 5α-reductase-1, an important enzyme in allopregnanolone biosynthesis encoded by the 5α-reductase-1 gene (Srd5a1). The present s...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Tanchuck-Nipper MA,Ford MM,Hertzberg A,Beadles-Bohling A,Cozzoli DK,Finn DA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study documented the etiology contributions between anxiety symptoms (AS) and depressive symptoms (DS) from ages 6-12 years. Teachers assessed AS and DS in 1112 twins at 5 time points. A genetic cross-lagged model was used to estimate genetic/environmental contributions to cross-sectional, cross-age and cross-lag...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Tanguay-Garneau L,Boivin M,Feng B,Matte-Landry A,Brendgen M,Vitaro F,Dionne G

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00