Do schools moderate the genetic determinants of smoking?

abstract：:Five species of whale with matrilineal social systems (daughters remain with mothers) have remarkably low levels of mitochondrial DNA diversity. Non-heritable matriline-level demography could reduce genetic diversity but the required conditions are not consistent with the natural histories of the matrilineal whales. T...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Whitehead H,Vachon F,Frasier TR

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:Complex illnesses, like depression, are thought to arise from the interplay between psychosocial stressors and genetic predispositions. Approaches that take into account both personal and neighborhood factors and that consider gene regions as well as individual SNPs may be necessary to capture these interactions acros...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Ware EB,Smith JA,Mukherjee B,Lee S,Kardia SL,Diez-Roux AV

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:This is the first report of data analyses from a consortium of longitudinal genetic-risk studies on offspring of schizophrenic parents (CLOSSER) who were followed from birth or mid-childhood to their early 20's or considerably older ages. Three of the CLOSSER studies provide data to enable us to address long-persistin...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Erlenmeyer-Kimling L,Hans S,Ingraham L,Marcus J,Wynne L,Rehman A,Roberts SA,Auerbach J

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If appropriately determined, recombinant-inbred (RI) strain means provide an excellent method for determining genetic correlations among complex characters. However, little systematic attention has been paid to important environmental influences on strain means such as random effects due to litter membership or system...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Blizard DA

更新日期：1992-11-01 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：:The amygdala integrates and coordinates emotional and autonomic responses. The genetics that underlie variation in amygdala structure may be coupled to variation in levels of aggression, fear, anxiety, and affiliated behaviors. We systematically quantified the volume and cell populations of the basolateral amygdala co...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Mozhui K,Hamre KM,Holmes A,Lu L,Williams RW

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Taste perception allows most animals to find edible food, potential mates, and avoid ingesting toxic molecules. Intriguingly, a small group of Drosophila taste neurones (expressing Gr66a-Gal4) involved in the perception of bitter substances is also used to detect 7-tricosene (7-T), a male cuticular pheromone. Male fli...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Lacaille F,Everaerts C,Ferveur JF

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:A new assay was designed, named checker, that measures the individual response to light in the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster larva. In this assay the Drosophila larva apparently modulates its pattern of locomotion when faced with a choice between a dark and lit environment by orienting its movement towards the dark...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Hassan J,Busto M,Iyengar B,Campos AR

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Callous-unemotional (CU) traits comprise the core symptoms of psychopathy, yet no study has estimated the heritability of CU traits in a community sample of children using an instrument designed solely to assess CU traits. The current study uses data from 339 twin pairs aged 9-14 to examine the reliability and heritab...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Moore AA,Carney D,Moroney E,Machlin L,Towbin KE,Brotman MA,Pine DS,Leibenluft E,Roberson-Nay R,Hettema JM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to learn and remember is variable within a population of a given species, including humans. This is due in part to genetic variation between individuals. However, only few genes have been identified that contribute to variation in learning and memory. Two inbred mouse strains, C57Bl/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (D2)...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Wilson YM,Brodnicki TC,Lawrence AJ,Murphy M

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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