Genome Wide Association Studies of Behavior are Social Science

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 43-64

  Turkheimer, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal Process; Delinquent Behavior; Genome Wide Association Study; Population Stratification; Propensity Score

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880987580     PISSN: 00680346     EISSN: 22147942     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1951-4_3     Document Type: Chapter

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