Genetics of Callous-Unemotional Behavior in Children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Viding, Essi ^a,b   Price, Thomas S ^a,c   Jaffee, Sara R ^a,d   Trzaskowski, Maciej ^a   Davis, Oliver S P ^a   Meaburn, Emma L ^e   Haworth, Claire M A ^a   Plomin, Robert ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CALLOUS UNEMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TWINS;

CHILD; CONDUCT DISORDER; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84879937577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065789     Document Type: Article

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