Short-Term Genetic Selection for Adolescent Locomotor Sensitivity to Delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

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：: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 present study explored the effects of infantile stimulation (i.e., neonatal handling or NH) on the performance of 18-month-old Roman high-avoidance (RHA/Verh) and low-avoidance (RLA/Verh) rats in a swimming pool matching-to-place (SPMP) test. This test (also called repeated acquisition and place learning-set parad...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Aguilar R,Escorihuela RM,Gil L,Tobeña A,Fernández-Teruel A

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The role of non-shared environment (NSE) in the development of psychological traits is usually comparable with that of the genotype. However, no specific factors of NSE with significant impact on such traits have been discovered so far. We propose that the current failures in understanding the origin of NSE are at lea...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Tikhodeyev ON,Shcherbakova ОV

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Testis specific protein, Y-encoded-like 2 (TSPYL2) regulates the expression of genes encoding glutamate receptors. Glutamate pathology is implicated in neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and schizophrenia. In line with this, a microduplicatio...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Li Q,Chan SY,Wong KK,Wei R,Leung YO,Ding AY,Hui TC,Cheung C,Chua SE,Sham PC,Wu EX,McAlonan GM

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:In a sample of 1,940 Dutch 7-year-old twin pairs we studied the etiology of individual differences in Internalizing and Externalizing behavioral problems. For the majority of twins in the sample, both maternal and paternal ratings of behavioral problems were obtained from the Child Behavior Checklist. This made it pos...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： van der Valk JC,van den Oord EJ,Verhulst FC,Boomsma DI

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies of child psychopathology, phenotypes of interest are often obtained by parental ratings. When behavioral ratings are obtained in the context of a twin study, this allows for the decomposition of the phenotypic variance, into a genetic and a non-genetic part. If a phenotype is assessed by a single rater, her...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Fedko IO,Wesseldijk LW,Nivard MG,Hottenga JJ,van Beijsterveldt CE,Middeldorp CM,Bartels M,Boomsma DI

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:In the original version of this article, unfortunately, in the acknowledgement section "National Institutes of Health (NIH, R37 AG033590-08) to J Cacioppo" was omitted. This has been corrected by publishing this erratum. ...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Baselmans BML,van de Weijer MP,Abdellaoui A,Vink JM,Hottenga JJ,Willemsen G,Nivard MG,de Geus EJC,Boomsma DI,Bartels M

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:The Inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3) route is one of the two main transduction cascades that mediate olfactory reception in Drosophila melanogaster. The activity of IP3 kinase1 reduces the levels of this substrate by phosphorylation into inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakiphosphate (IP4). We show here that the gene is expressed...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Gomez-Diaz C,Martin F,Alcorta E

更新日期：2006-03-01 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 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 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：: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：: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：:Previous studies suggest that brain opioid activity decreases aggression in animal models. The main objective of the current study was to examine the possible genetic relationship between intermale aggression and brain levels of enkephalins, endorphins, and dynorphins in 11 inbred strains of mice. Pursuit, rattling, a...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Tordjman S,Carlier M,Cohen D,Cesselin F,Bourgoin S,Colas-Linhart N,Petiet A,Perez-Diaz F,Hamon M,Roubertoux PL

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:Almost 40 years ago, evidence from large studies of adult twins and their relatives suggested that between 30 and 60% of the variance in social and political attitudes could be explained by genetic influences. However, these findings have not been widely accepted or incorporated into the dominant paradigms that explai...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Hatemi PK,Medland SE,Klemmensen R,Oskarsson S,Littvay L,Dawes CT,Verhulst B,McDermott R,Nørgaard AS,Klofstad CA,Christensen K,Johannesson M,Magnusson PK,Eaves LJ,Martin NG

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we analyzed the etiology of the relationship between personality traits and retrospectively recalled family environment. The data of 226 identical and 168 fraternal twin pairs reared together from the Jena twin study of social attitudes were available. Personality traits were measured using the self- and...

journal_title：Behavior genetics

authors： Kandler C,Riemann R,Kämpfe N

更新日期：2009-01-01 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