Commentary: The presence of bifurcations as a 'third component of individual differences': Implications for quantitative (behaviour) genetics

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 346-351

  Kan, Kees Jan ^a,b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^a,b   Van der maas, Han L J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Psychological Methods ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ORGANISMS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84859627419     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr222     Document Type: Note

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