Mixed-effects variance components models for biometric family analyses.

abstract：:Chickens homozygous for the Dominant white or wild-type allele of PMEL17 were subjected to a broad phenotyping in order to detect consistent differences between genotypes. To exclude feather pecking, the chickens were individually housed without physical contact, from the day of hatching, and tested for social, aggres...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Karlsson AC,Mormede P,Kerje S,Jensen P

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review the literature on the familial resemblance of body mass index (BMI) and other adiposity measures and find strikingly convergent results for a variety of relationships. Results from twin studies suggest that genetic factors explain 50 to 90% of the variance in BMI. Family studies generally report estimates of...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Maes HH,Neale MC,Eaves LJ

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Parameters of quantitative genetic models have traditionally been estimated by either algebraic manipulation of familial correlations (or familial mean squares), biometric model fitting, or multiple-group covariance structure analysis. With few exceptions, researchers who have used these methods for the analysis of tw...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Waller NG,Muthén BO

更新日期：1992-05-01 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

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：:The region containing ROBO1 (Chromosome 3p12.3) has been implicated as a susceptibility gene for reading disorder and language deficit by translocation and linkage data. No association studies have yet been reported supporting any candidate gene. Here we report the first association of this gene with language deficits...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Bates TC,Luciano M,Medland SE,Montgomery GW,Wright MJ,Martin NG

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Two ongoing selective breeding projects have produced mice that display divergent analgesic responses to morphine. These two projects have selected for similar phenotypes: high and low levorphanol analgesia (HAR/LAR lines; Portland, OR) and high and low swim stress-induced analgesia (HA/LA lines; Jastrzebiec, Poland)....

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Mogil JS,Flodman P,Spence MA,Sternberg WF,Kest B,Sadowski B,Liebeskind JC,Belknap JK

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:A complimentary two-phase strategy was used to detect and map quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with the basal locomotor response to a saline challenge (10 ml/kg). In phase 1, putative QTLs, significant at p < 0.01 or better, were identified by analysis of the strain means for 25 strains of the B x D recombina...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Koyner J,Demarest K,McCaughran J Jr,Cipp L,Hitzemann R

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:A study was conducted to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that affect learning in honeybees. Two F1 supersister queens were produced from a cross between two established lines that had been selected for differences in the speed at which they reverse a learned discrimination between odors. Different families of ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Chandra SB,Hunt GJ,Cobey S,Smith BH

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety disorders are phenotypically complex and may involve multiple genetic influences on many neurotransmitter systems. Rodent tests used to investigate genetic influences on anxiety-like phenotypes have face and predictive validity as models for anxiety in humans. If multiple genes contribute additively to a trait...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Conti LH,Jirout M,Breen L,Vanella JJ,Schork NJ,Printz MP

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：:Gender-moderated gene-environment interactions are rarely explored, raising concerns about inaccurate specification of etiological models and inferential errors. The current study examined the influence of gender, negative and positive daily life events, and GABRA2 genotype (SNP rs279871) on alcohol dependence, testin...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Perry BL,Pescosolido BA,Bucholz K,Edenberg H,Kramer J,Kuperman S,Schuckit MA,Nurnberger JI Jr

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating the causes of population divergence, and ultimately speciation, is a central objective of evolutionary biology. A number of previous studies of Drosophila populations from the Nahal Oren canyon (Mt Carmel, Israel) revealed significant interslope differences for a complex of fitness and behavioral traits. P...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Singh SR,Rashkovetsky E,Iliadi K,Nevo E,Korol A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of marriage varies across the lifespan, as does its importance to reproduction and the nurturance of children. We examined genetic and environmental influences on self-reported marriage at each decade from 20 through 70 years of age, using data collected for the Duke Dementia Study, a followed-up subset...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Trumbetta SL,Markowitz EM,Gottesman II

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among three sibling species of the D. melanogaster subgroup, two are generalists (D. simulans and D. mauritiana), while the third, D. sechellia, specializes on a single toxic resource, the fruit of Morinda citrifolia. D. sechellia, resistant to the toxics, prefers to oviposit on morinda; D. simulans, which is very sen...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Moreteau B,R'Kha S,David JR

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heritability of human personality is well-established. Recent research indicates that nonadditive genetic effects, such as dominance and epistasis, play a large role in personality variation. One possible explanation for the latter finding is that there has been recent selection on human personality. To test this ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Adams MJ,King JE,Weiss A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated regional grey matter (GM) density in adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) compared to age-matched controls and correlated MRI data with neuropsychological measures in the DS group. Inter-group comparisons documented several GM concentration abnormalities in the participants with DS compared to controls....

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Menghini D,Costanzo F,Vicari S

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective breeding for initial sensitivity to ethanol has been carried out by a number of investigators in order to investigate the mechanisms by which ethanol brings about a myriad of effects on the mammalian central nervous system. In addition the availability of these selectively bred animals provides clues to the ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Deitrich RA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paradise fish, a small insectivore, coinhabits marshes of Southeast Asia with several predator fish species. Its ability to recognize and avoid harmful fish may depend upon both genetic factors and experience. Here we demonstrate genetic variability between the 20-day-old larvae of two inbred strains of paradise f...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Miklósi A,Csányi V,Gerlai R

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective mapping strategies for quantitative trains must allow for the detection of the more important quantitative trait loci (QTLs) while minimizing false positives. Type I (false-positive) and Type II (false-negative) error rates were estimated from a computer simulation of QTL mapping in the BXD recombinant inbre...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Belknap JK,Mitchell SR,O'Toole LA,Helms ML,Crabbe JC

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent controversy has given reason to examine the place of Burt's data among other behavioral genetic data on IQ. Although Burt's kinship correlations are higher than the average of other studies, his results are generally consistent with other data. ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Rowe D,Plomin R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00