Advances in behavioral genetics modeling using Mplus: Applications of factor mixture modeling to twin data

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-324

  Muthén, Bengt ^a   Asparouhov, Tihomir ^b   Rebollo, Irene ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Muthén and Muthén ^*  (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE; TWINS;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AUSTRALIA; BIOMETRY; DISEASES IN TWINS; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOFTWARE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33745758361     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/183242706777591317     Document Type: Review

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