Choice of residential location: Chance, family influences, or genes?

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-26

  Whitfield, John B ^a   Zhu, Gu ^a   Heath, Andrew C ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; GENDER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRATION; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SUBURBAN POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 16444377891     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/1832427053435391     Document Type: Article

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