Genetic and environmental influences on type A behavior pattern: Evidence from twins and their parents in the netherlands twin register

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 437-442

  Rebollo, Irene ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

JAS; Parents offspring; Risk of CHD; Sibling interaction; Twin studies; Type A behavior pattern

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FULL INFORMATION MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; GENETIC CODE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; JENKINS ACTIVITY SURVEY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NETHERLANDS; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING RELATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TWINS; TYPE A BEHAVIOR; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NETHERLANDS; PARENTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS; TYPE A PERSONALITY;

EID: 33746049476     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000204631.76684.28     Document Type: Article

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