Exercise participation in adolescents and their parents: Evidence for genetic and generation specific environmental effects

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 211-222

  De Moor, Marleen H M ^a   Willemsen, Gonneke ^a   Rebollo Mesa, Irene ^a   Stubbe, Janine H ^a   De Geus, Eco J C ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Adulthood; Assortative mating; Cultural transmission; Exercise participation; Genetic transmission; Parents; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NETHERLANDS; PARENT; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SPOUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ENVIRONMENT; EXERCISE; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; NETHERLANDS; PARENTS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79952453667     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-010-9415-4     Document Type: Article

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