Religious upbringing and neuroticism in dutch twin families

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 327-333

  Willemsen, Gonneke ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SCORING SYSTEM; SIBLING RELATION; TWINS;

ADULT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PARENTING; REGISTRIES; RELIGION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 34247522344     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.10.2.327     Document Type: Article

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