Gene-environment interaction and the intergenerational transmission of parenting: Testing the differential-susceptibility hypothesis

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-40

  Beaver, Kevin M ^a   Belsky, Jay ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential susceptibility; Genetics; Intergenerational; Parenting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PARENTAL STRESS; PLASTICITY; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PARENTING; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D4; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TWINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857905568     PISSN: 00332720     EISSN: 15736709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11126-011-9180-4     Document Type: Article

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