Genetic linkage and association analysis for loneliness in Dutch twin and sibling pairs points to a region on chromosome 12q23-24

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 137-146

  Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   Cacioppo, John T ^b   Slagboom, P Eline ^c   Posthuma, Danielle ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Association; Heritability; Linkage; Loneliness; Ordinal data; QTL; Sib pair

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 12Q; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NETHERLANDS; PHENOTYPE; SIBLING; TWINS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LONELINESS; MALE; MUTATION; NETHERLANDS; PHENOTYPE; SIBLINGS;

EID: 33645789614     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-005-9005-z     Document Type: Article

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