Phenotype-environment correlations in longitudinal twin models

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-16

  Beam, Christopher R ^a   Turkheimer, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS;

EID: 84873904552     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579412000867     Document Type: Article

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