Rethinking Shared Environment as a Source of Variance Underlying Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms: Comment on Burt (2009)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 331-340

  Wood, Alexis C ^a   Buitelaar, Jan ^b   Rijsdijk, Fruhling ^c   Asherson, Philip ^c   Kuntsi, Jonna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ADHD; heritability; meta analysis; objective data; twin studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953169399     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019048     Document Type: Article

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