Familial resemblance for loneliness

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 480-494

  Distel, Marijn A ^a   Rebollo Mesa, Irene ^a,b   Abdellaoui, Abdel ^a   Derom, Catherine A ^c   Willemsen, Gonneke ^a   Cacioppo, John T ^d   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended twin design; GE interaction; Heritability; Loneliness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORBIDITY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TWIN ZYGOSITY; TWINS; CULTURAL FACTOR; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INHERITANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REGISTER; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LONELINESS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; REGISTRIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS;

EID: 77956187749     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-010-9341-5     Document Type: Article

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