Mx scripts library: Structural equation modeling scripts for twin and family data

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 499-505

  Posthuma, D ^a   Boomsma, D I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genetic analysis; Mx; Structural equation modeling; Twin and family data

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; HERITABILITY; MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TWINS;

DNA; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOFTWARE; TWIN STUDIES;

EID: 20544465891     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-005-2791-5     Document Type: Article

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