Environment and the behavior genetics of personality: Let me count the ways

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 302-305

  Loehlin, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior genetics; GE correlation; GE interaction; Genes; Personality; Shared environment; Unshared environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953359655     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.10.035     Document Type: Article

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