Family resemblance in abilities: the Wechsler scales.

abstract：:Sex differences in genetic and environmental influences on criminal behavior against property were studied in a birth cohort of 6129 male and 7065 female Danish adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. Both genetic and environmental factors were found to contribute to variation in liability to property crim...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Baker LA,Mack W,Moffitt TE,Mednick S

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the reviewed literature and the data presented in this paper, conclusions can be drawn with respect to the validity of the WAG/Rij strain of rats as a model for absence epilepsy in humans. The view that the WAG/Rij model has "face validity" is supported by the simultaneous presence of clinical and electroence...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Coenen AM,Van Luijtelaar EL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Martin and Wilson (1982) describe two forms of sampling bias in twin studies. One is "hard selection," where individuals above a threshold participate, and those below do not. The second is "soft selection," where the probability of including a pair of relatives varies over the range of the character. We present an al...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Neale MC,Eaves LJ,Kendler KS,Hewitt JK

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and environmental determinants of self-reported alcohol consumption were investigated in a sample of 2513 twin pairs who were first assessed at age 16 and were followed-up at age 17. At age 16, 77% of the sample was drinking, and 65% of drinkers reported drinking to intoxication. Both drinking and drinking to ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Viken RJ,Kaprio J,Koskenvuo M,Rose RJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the maternal environment on intermale aggression was studied by means of embryo transfer of genetically selected aggressive (SAL) and nonaggressive wild house mice (LAL), and their reciprocal F1's, to standard (NMR1) females. No effect was found on the attack latency scores (ALS), i.e., aggression: all g...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Sluyter F,van der Vlugt JJ,van Oortmerssen GA,Koolhaas JM,van der Hoeven F,de Boer P

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and environmental influences on problem behaviors were studied in a sample of international adoptees. Parental ratings of childrens' problem behaviors were obtained with the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). The sample (mean age, 12.4 years) comprised a group of biological siblings (111 pairs), a group of nonbi...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： van den Oord EJ,Boomsma DI,Verhulst FC

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined data from a large cohort of homosexual and heterosexual females and males concerning their siblings' sexual orientations. As in previous studies, both male and female homosexuality were familial. Homosexual females had an excess of homosexual brothers compared to heterosexual subjects, thus providing evide...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Bailey JM,Bell AP

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used an alternate age variable, functional biological age (fBioAge), which was based on performance on functional body measures. The aim was to examine development of fBioAge across the adult life span, and to also examine potential gender differences and genetic and environmental influences on change with age. We ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Finkel D,Sternäng O,Wahlin Å

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:Selection for high and low locomotor activity has been applied in two base populations of Drosophila melanogaster of distinct geographical origin. From each base population a high and a low line were selected, in which anesthesia was performed with ether. In addition, from one of the base populations a high line and a...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： van Dijken FR,Scharloo W

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of handedness incorporating both genetic and cultural processes is proposed, based on an evolutionary analysis, and maximum-likelihood estimates of its parameters are generated. This model has the characteristics that (i) no genetic variation underlies variation in handedness, and (ii) variation in handedness ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Laland KN,Kumm J,Van Horn JD,Feldman MW

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:Genomewide scan, as shown by recently published linkage studies on the behavior of mice or in psychiatry, provides evidence for replicated quantitative trait loci (QTL). Several studies of Alzheimer's disease have demonstrated the promise of moving from clinical diagnoses to biological signs for psychiatric investigat...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Roubertoux PL,Le Roy-Duflos I

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：: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：:Roman high- and low-avoidance (RHA/Verh and RLA/Verh) rats are selected and bred for extreme divergence in two-way active avoidance acquisition. In addition, compared to RLA/Verh rats, RHA/Verh rats are (behaviorally and physiologically) less anxious or reactive to stressors, show increased novelty (sensation)-seeking...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Fernández-Teruel A,Escorihuela RM,Castellano B,González B,Tobeña A

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：:Using high resolution magnetic resonance imaging data, we examined the interrelationships between eight cerebral lobar volumetric measures via both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in a large sample (N = 484) of pediatric twins and singletons. These analyses suggest the presence of strong genetic correlati...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Schmitt JE,Wallace GL,Lenroot RK,Ordaz SE,Greenstein D,Clasen L,Kendler KS,Neale MC,Giedd JN

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tested in Hirsch-Hadler mazes, Drosophila pseudoobscura is on the average geoneutral and photoneutral. Strongly geo- and photopositive and geo- and photonegative populations can be obtained by artificial selection, but upon relaxation of the selection they tend to relapse toward neutrality. This genetic homeostasis is...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Levene H,Dobzhansky T

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations on the period locus of Drosophila melanogaster influence circadian periods as well as the rhythm in inter-pulse intervals in male courtship song; perL mutations produce long circadian periods and courtship song rhythms and per(s) mutations produce short circadian periods and courtship song rhythms. Thus, the...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Roche JP,Talyn BC,Dowse HB

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Two separate genome-wide association studies were conducted to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with social and nonsocial autistic-like traits. We predicted that we would find SNPs associated with social and non-social autistic-like traits and that different SNPs would be associated with soci...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Ronald A,Butcher LM,Docherty S,Davis OS,Schalkwyk LC,Craig IW,Plomin R

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:For many psychiatric conditions it is speculated that, rather than being single disease entities, they are a set of several disorders sharing clinical features but having (partly) different underlying causes. The possibility of measuring genetic variation on a large scale has given researchers new hope of identifying ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： van den Oord E,McClay J,York T,Murrelle L,Robles J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses longitudinal population-based samples of young siblings to examine the effects of two hypothesized moderators of early externalizing behaviors: parental emotional support and family socioeconomic status. The first sample, a twin sample from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Cheung AK,Harden KP,Tucker-Drob EM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A powerful longitudinal data source, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Children data, allows measurement of behavior problems (BP) within a developmental perspective linking them to menarcheal timing (MT). In a preliminary analysis, we evaluate the bivariate relationships between BP measured at different devel...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Rodgers JL,Van Hulle C,D'Onofrio B,Rathouz P,Beasley W,Johnson A,Waldman I,Lahey BB

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable evidence that sex differences in spatial ability exist in adults, with males outperforming females at every age after puberty. It is difficult, however, to find sex differences in children younger than 13. This is due in part to the lack of adequate measures of spatial ability for use with childr...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Kerns KA,Berenbaum SA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twin studies are useful for assessing the relative importance of genetic or heritable component from the environmental component. In this paper we develop a methodology to study the heritability of age-at-onset or lifespan traits, with application to analysis of twin survival data. Due to limited period of observation...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Ha ID,Lee Y,Pawitan Y

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results obtained from previous studies of word recognition, reading component skills, and reading composite measures suggest that genetic factors may be more important as a cause for reading disability among children with higher IQ scores than among those with lower IQ scores. To investigate the genetic etiology of re...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Knopik VS,Smith SD,Cardon L,Pennington B,Gayan J,Olson RK,DeFries JC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that many continuously distributed traits have a heritable component. However, it is often difficult to communicate to the general public the meaning of quantitative estimates of heritability. To address this problem, the present paper introduces a heuristic for communicating heritability to non...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Allison DB,Faith MS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00