Genetic influences on life span and its relationship to personality: A 16-year follow-up study of a sample of aging twins

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-22

  Mosing, Miriam A ^a,b   Medland, Sarah E ^a,b   McRae, Allan ^a   Landers, Joseph George ^a   Wright, Margaret J ^a,b   Martin, Nicholas G ^a,b  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

genetic architecture; heritability; life span; longevity; mortality; personality

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMMUNITY CARE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EXTRAVERSION; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORTALITY; NEUROSIS; OPTIMISM; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PESSIMISM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVISED LIFE ORIENTATION TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TWINS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TWINS;

EID: 84855685367     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3182385784     Document Type: Article

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