High heritability for a composite index of children's activity level measures

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 266-276

  Wood, Alexis C ^a   Rijsdijk, Frühling ^a   Saudino, Kimberly J ^b   Asherson, Philip ^a   Kuntsi, Jonna ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actigraph; Activity level; ADHD; Composite score; Heritability; Rater effects

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SCHOOL CHILD;

ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENTS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 41849132794     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-008-9196-1     Document Type: Article

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