The cross-generational mother-daughter-aunt-niece design: Establishing validity of the MDAN design with NLSY fertility variables

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 567-578

  Rodgers, Joseph Lee ^a   Bard, David E ^a   Johnson, Amber ^b   D'Onofrio, Brian ^c   Miller, Warren B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Family Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Aunts; Behavior genetic designs; DF Analysis; Family designs; Fertility precursors; Heritability; NLSY children; NLSY79; Siblings

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BIOMETRY; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; DAUGHTER; FACE VALIDITY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; NUCLEAR FAMILY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 55949125554     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-008-9225-0     Document Type: Article

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