Integrating social science and genetics: News from the political front

Biodemography and Social Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-87

  Hatemi, Peter K ^a   Dawes, Christopher T ^b   Frost Keller, Amanda ^c   Settle, Jaime E ^b   Verhulst, Brad ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; POLITICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TWINS;

ATTITUDE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLITICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79956189219     PISSN: 19485565     EISSN: 19485573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.2011.568276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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