Individual differences in puberty onset in girls: Bayesian estimation of heritabilities and genetic correlations

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 261-270

  Van Den Berg, Stéphanie M ^a   Setiawan, Adi ^a   Bartels, Meike ^a   Polderman, Tinca J C ^a,b   Van Der Vaart, Aad W ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Genetic correlation; MCMC; Menarche; Puberty; Tanner

Indexed keywords

ADRENARCHE; AGE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; HAIR; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENARCHE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PROBABILITY; PUBERTY; PUBIC HAIR; SCHOOL CHILD;

BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENARCHE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHENOTYPE; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33646356512     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-005-9022-y     Document Type: Article

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