Estimating the heritability of reporting stressful life events captured by common genetic variants

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1965-1971

  Power, R A ^a   Wingenbach, T ^a   Cohen Woods, S ^a   Uher, R ^a,b   Ng, M Y ^a   Butler, A W ^a,c   Ising, M ^d   Craddock, N ^e   Owen, M J ^e   Korszun, A ^f   Jones, L ^g   Jones, I ^f   Gill, M ^h   Rice, J P ⁱ   Maier, W ^j   Zobel, A ^j   Mors, O ^k   Placentino, A ^l   Rietschel, M ^m   Lucae, S ^d   Holsboer, F ^d   Binder, E B ^d   Keers, R ^a,f   Tozzi, F ⁿ   Muglia, P ^n,o,p   Breen, G ^a   Craig, I W ^a   Muller Myhsok B ^d   Kennedy, J L ^o,q   Strauss, J ^o,q   Vincent, J B ^o,q   Lewis, C M ^a   Farmer, A E ^a   McGuffin, P ^a   more..

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^h TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

ⁱ WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^k AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^l SPEDALI CIVILI   (Italy)

^m CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

ⁿ GSK   (Italy)

^o UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^p NEUROSEARCH A S   (Denmark)

^q CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

GCTA; heritability of environment; personality; stressful life events

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MODELS, GENETIC; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84881448319     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291712002589     Document Type: Article

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