An investigation of a measure of twins' equal environments

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 840-847

  Mitchell, Karen S ^a,b   Mazzeo, Suzanne E ^a,c   Bulik, Cynthia M ^d   Aggen, Steven H ^b,c   Kendler, Kenneth S ^b,c   Neale, Michael C ^a,b,c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF REPORT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; REGISTRIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VIRGINIA;

EID: 37349091258     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.10.6.840     Document Type: Article

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