Flexible Mx specification of various extended twin kinship designs

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-34

  Maes, Hermine H ^a,b,f   Neale, Michael C ^a   Medland, Sarah E ^a   Keller, Matthew C ^c   Martin, Nicholas G ^d   Heath, Andrew C ^e   Eaves, Lindon J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended twin kinship models; Mx; Twin and family data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING CESSATION; TWIN ZYGOSITY; TWINS; UNITED STATES; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ZYGOSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; DATABASES, GENETIC; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TWINS; VIRGINIA;

EID: 60849128542     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.12.1.26     Document Type: Article

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