Power and sample sizes for linkage with extreme sampling under an oligogenic model for quantitative traits.

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：:Latent variable models are used in biological and social sciences to investigate characteristics that are not directly measurable. The generation of individual scores of latent variables can simplify subsequent analyses. However, missing measurements in real data complicate the calculation of scores. Missing observati...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Campbell DD,Rijsdijk FV,Sham PC

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The equal environments hypothesis of twin methodology was examined for the variable of similarity of appearance as it affects the personality ratings of young twins. There were two separate samples, the first with 95 pairs of same-sex twins and the second with 111 pairs. The average age of the twins in both samples wa...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Plomin R,Willerman L,Loehlin JC

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human obesity is associated with greater-than-average energy intake, although relatively few studies have tested the heritability of food intake. The present study examined the genetic architecture of measured caloric intake during laboratory test meals in 36 monozygotic and 18 dizygotic twin pairs. A series of analys...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Faith MS,Rha SS,Neale MC,Allison DB

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：: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：:The most common alternative to a genetic explanation of left-handedness is that sinistrality arises because of birth stress factors. In a sample of 1398 subjects, the association between birth stress and left-handedness was confirmed. More importantly, it was found that left-handed mothers are more likely to have birt...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Coren S

更新日期：1995-11-01 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

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：: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：:Artificial selection was used to establish different levels of agonistic behavior in laboratory-reared wild female Mus musculus. A within-family selection design with replicated high and low lines and two nonselected control lines was employed. Females only were tested at 8 weeks of age on 2 consecutive days. Testing ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Ebert PD,Hyde JS

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In epidemiological and twin populations, prior interview studies have identified an externalizing spectrum of disorders. Could this be detected utilizing objective registry data? In 20,603 twin pairs from the Swedish Twin Registry, we obtained information from national medical, criminal and pharmacy records on drug ab...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Kendler KS,Lönn SL,Maes HH,Lichtenstein P,Sundquist J,Sundquist K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Males from the fifty selected generation of a selection program for aggressiveness in female Mus musculus (Ebert and Hyde, 1976) were tested to determine whether male aggressiveness showed a correlated response in selection for female aggressiveness. The results indicated that male aggression had not shown a correlate...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Hyde JS,Ebert PD

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reading ability and specific reading disability (SRD) are complex traits involving several cognitive processes and are shaped by a complex interplay of genetic and environmental forces. Linkage studies of these traits have identified several susceptibility loci. Association studies have gone further in detecting candi...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Skiba T,Landi N,Wagner R,Grigorenko EL

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Age-related changes are analyzed in the correlation of 3416 monozygotic and 3780 dizygotic U.S. twin pairs aged between 9 and 75+ years for conservatism scores derived from a 28-item social attitude inventory. The effects of the shared environment are overwhelming in twins aged 20 years or younger. In older twins, gen...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Eaves L,Martin N,Heath A,Schieken R,Meyer J,Silberg J,Neale M,Corey L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory control (IC) is a dimension of child temperament that emerges in toddlerhood and involves the ability to regulate behavior in response to instructions or expectations. In general, children with low levels of IC have more cognitive and social difficulties, and higher levels of problem behaviors. Unfortunatel...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Gagne JR,Saudino KJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:We report on a cross-syndrome comparison of hand, foot, eye and ear laterality in three groups of individuals with different genetic disorders (trisomy 21, del7q11.23, and del22q11.2) to test the relationship between atypical laterality and intellectual disability. These groups were compared to a group of typically de...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Carlier M,Desplanches AG,Philip N,Stefanini S,Vicari S,Volterra V,Deruelle C,Fisch G,Doyen AL,Swillen A

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:The conditioned and reflex parameters in rat lines selected for the threshold of excitability (a fundamental characteristics of the functional state of the nervous system) were estimated. This measure is based on the response of the tibial nerve to electrical stimulation, which gives a general indication of the level ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Vaydo AI,Shiryaeva NV,Lopatina NG

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：: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：: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：:Differences between population-typical norms of individual variability were studied in five genetic lines of Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica); two (BL and RL) were bidirectionally selected for early approach preference between blue and red stimuli, two (Hi and Lo) for high and low imprintabilities to the sa...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Kovach JK

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：: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