Genetic and structural analysis of the basolateral amygdala complex in BXD recombinant inbred mice.

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：: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：: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：:A go/no-go operant task was used to assess the ability of male Long-Evans rats to discriminate between the urine odors from pairs of intact MHC congenic mice (C57BL/6-H-2Kb/J and C57BL/6-H-2Kbm1/ByJ), intact Y congenic mice (DBA1 and DBA1.C57BL10-Y), and castrated Y congenic mice of these two strains. The MHC congenic...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Schellinck HM,Monahan E,Brown RE,Maxson SC

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a zygosity questionnaire for use in young twins and assessed its validity using the results of DNA diagnosis. The participants were divided into two groups: 105 pairs of adolescent twins (12-16 years old), 47 pairs of child twins (2-12 years old), and their respective parents. The DNA diagnosis of zygosit...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Chen WJ,Chang HW,Wu MZ,Lin CC,Chang C,Chiu YN,Soong WT

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wealth of literature suggests that normative and heavy alcohol consumption continue to follow a historical pattern of greater prevalence among males as compared to females. Some prior research suggested that sex-specific factors might explain some of this gender gap. Generally speaking, though, more recent studies h...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Richardson GB,Boutwell BB

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a repeated-measures, genetic analysis of ethanol-induced anesthesia (sleep time) in mice from the inbred long-sleep (ILS) and short-sleep (ISS) strains of mice and their derived F1 and F2 generations. Mice (total N > 1300) were administered a 4.1 g/kg intraperitoneal dose of ethanol at two times, 7 to 10 da...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Markel PD,DeFries JC,Johnson TE

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：: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：:: We report heritabilities for individual differences in female pubertal development at the age of 12. Tanner data on breast and pubic hair development in girls and data on menarche were obtained from a total of 184 pairs of monozygotic and dizygotic twins. Genetic correlations were estimated to determine to what exte...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： van den Berg SM,Setiawan A,Bartels M,Polderman TJ,van der Vaart AW,Boomsma DI

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During middle childhood, continuous changes occur in electroencephalogram (EEG) coherence, an index of cortico-cortical connectivity of the brain. In the gradual development of EEG coher ence, occasional "growth spurts" are observed which coincide with periods of discontinuous development in cognition. Discontinuous d...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： van Baal GC,Boomsma DI,de Geus EJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：: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：:This note reports data on parent-child and spouse resemblance on the Wechsler intelligence scales, the WISC and WAIS. Test data on parents and one male 10-year-old child from 55 Canadian families are used to estimate father-son, mother-son, midparent-son, and father-mother correlations on 11 comparable subscales and o...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Williams T

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-six mice of 11 genetic stocks (the Bailey recombinant inbred strains CXBD, CXBE, CXBG, CXBH, CXBI, CXBJ, CXBK; their progenitor strains, BALB/cBy and C57BL/6By: and the reciprocal hybrids, B6CF and CB6F) were tested in a two-compartment apparatus and in a shuttlebox, with five measures taken relating to activity...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Simmel EC,Eleftheriou BE

更新日期：1977-05-01 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：:The initial experimental population of Drosophila persimilis was photopositive and slightly geonegative. In this respect, the initial population of D. persimilis differed from the experimental population of D. pseudoobscura, described by others, which was close to photo- and geotactic neutrality. In D. persimilis as i...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Polivanov S

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a test of whether sex differences in cognitive functioning are determined by chromosomal constitution or hormonal events, eight subjects whose phenotypic sex differed from their genotypic sex were given a standard intelligence test. The results indicated that differences between verbal and nonverbal abilities corre...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Rovet J,Netley C

更新日期：1979-07-01 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：:Variance components analysis provides an efficient method for performing linkage analysis for quantitative traits. However, power and type 1 error of variance components-based likelihood ratio testing may be affected when phenotypic data are nonnormally distributed (especially with high values of kurtosis) and there i...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Shete S,Beasley TM,Etzel CJ,Fernández JR,Chen J,Allison DB,Amos CI

更新日期：2004-03-01 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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:In the present study we evaluated long term memory in twenty individuals with molecularly confirmed diagnosis of Noonan syndrome and LEOPARD syndrome, two disorders caused by mutations in genes coding transducers participating in the RAS-MAPK signaling cascade. The profile of explicit long term memory abilities was in...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Alfieri P,Cesarini L,Mallardi M,Piccini G,Caciolo C,Leoni C,Mirante N,Pantaleoni F,Digilio MC,Gambardella ML,Tartaglia M,Vicari S,Mercuri E,Zampino G

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:The multiple regression methodology proposed by DeFries and Fulker (DF; 1985, 1988) for the analysis of twin data is compared with maximum-likelihood estimation of genetic and environmental parameters from covariance structure. Expectations for the regression coefficients from submodels omitting the h2 and c2 terms ar...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Cherny SS,DeFries JC,Fulker DW

更新日期：1992-07-01 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