Laterality preference and cognition: cross-syndrome comparison of patients with trisomy 21 (Down), del7q11.23 (Williams-Beuren) and del22q11.2 (DiGeorge or Velo-Cardio-Facial) syndromes.

abstract：:A large sample of adult twins (1117 pairs), who were concordant for having had children were asked to report on their child-rearing practices. A 14-item version of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) was used to assess rearing practices of parent twins. The two factors of Care and Overprotection, commonly found in o...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Pérusse D,Neale MC,Heath AC,Eaves LJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Individuals involved in a social interaction exhibit different behavioral traits that, in combination, form the individual's behavioral responses. Selectively bred strains of silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes) demonstrate markedly different behaviors in their response to humans. To identify the genetic basis of these behavi...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Nelson RM,Temnykh SV,Johnson JL,Kharlamova AV,Vladimirova AV,Gulevich RG,Shepeleva DV,Oskina IN,Acland GM,Rönnegård L,Trut LN,Carlborg Ö,Kukekova AV

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The facts concerning Kammerer's case are reviewed. Koestler's view that Krammerer was unjustly accused is presented and shown to be incorrect. ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Aronson LR

更新日期：1975-04-01 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：:The ε4 allele of the apolipoprotein (APOE) gene is a widely recognized genetic risk factor for developing Alzheimer's disease in older age. However, it is controversial whether there is a positive impact of the APOE ε4 allele on human cognitive performance in young adulthood, possibly representing a case of antagonist...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Li X,Hildebrandt A,Sommer W,Wilhelm O,Reuter M,Montag C,Zhou C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of the East Flanders Prospective Twin Survey (EFPTS), handedness was assessed as part of a genealogical study (Meulemans et al., 1995) in 1616 twins (808 twin pairs) aged 6 to 28. Our findings are that, in this large population-based study with known placentation and zygosity, the often observed higher f...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Derom C,Thiery E,Vlietinck R,Loos R,Derom R

更新日期：1996-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 behaviors of male mice of the C57BL/6J (C57), CBA/Lac (CBA) and BALB/c (BALB) strains have been studied in the plus-maze and open field tests for estimation of state anxiety in the stressful novel conditions, and in the cubic box test (exploration of novel cubic box) and the partition test (behavioral reactivity t...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Avgustinovich DF,Lipina TV,Bondar NP,Alekseyenko OV,Kudryavtseva NN

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural equation modeling (SEM) provides a flexible tool to carry out genetic analyses of family and twin data. The basic model which decomposes the variance between and within families for a particular trait into genetic and non-genetic components can be generalized to multivariate and/or longitudinal data, incorp...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Posthuma D,Boomsma DI

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous electrophysiological experiments from hypopigmented animals (mice, rats, rabbits), single-unit recordings from both retinal ganglion axons and cells in the superior colliculus have demonstrated an increase in threshold in the dark-adapted state which is roughly proportional to the ocular melanin concentrat...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Hayes JM,Balkema GW

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Components of the communication system between infant and adult rodents based on ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) of infants are analyzed. USVs are most often emitted from a pup lost outside the nest in response to changes of: (i) body temperature, (ii) contact with adults/littermates, (iii) handling, and (iv) smell. T...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Ehret G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescent depression is common and has become a major public health concern in China, yet little research has examined the etiology of depression in Chinese adolescents. In the present study, genetic and environmental influences on Chinese adolescent depressive symptoms were investigated in 1,181 twin pairs residing ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Chen J,Li X,Natsuaki MN,Leve LD,Harold GT

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:We examined longitudinally collected behavioral reports by teachers on a unique twin sample at the ages of 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 years. As twin and adoption studies implicate the role of genetic influence on behavioral problems found to be stable in epidemiological samples, the current study employs a developmental ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Haberstick BC,Schmitz S,Young SE,Hewitt JK

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:As a result of different feeding regimens, two laboratory populations of the beetle Callosobruchus maculatus Fab. developed different rates of oviposition. The behavior of the F1 hybrids cannot be explained with an additive model of inheritance. The unusual pattern of inheritance suggests a sex-related factor(s) and a...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Mark GA

更新日期：1981-03-01 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