Genetic analysis of anger: Genetic dominance or competitive sibling interaction

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 216-228

  Rebollo, Irene ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anger; Dominance; Family; Sex differences; Sibling interaction; Twins; Type A behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; COMPETITION; CORONARY RISK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FATHER; FEMALE; GENDER; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTHER; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING RELATION; TYPE A BEHAVIOR; VARIANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGER; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CORONARY DISEASE; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SIBLING RELATIONS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; TYPE A PERSONALITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33646364849     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-005-9025-8     Document Type: Article

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