Genetic and environmental relationships between head circumference growth in the first year of life and sociocognitive development in the second year: A longitudinal twin study

Developmental Science

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 99-112

  Fujisawa, Keiko K ^a   Ozaki, Koken ^b   Suzuki, Kunitake ^a   Yamagata, Shinji ^a   Kawahashi, Ikko ^c   Ando, Juko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^c Japan Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEAD; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TWINS;

CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84855912682     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01097.x     Document Type: Article

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