Testing systematic genotype by environment interactions using item level data

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 212-231

  Molenaar, Dylan ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ACE model; Genotype by environment interaction; Item response theory; Poor scaling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; DEPRESSION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; SIMULATION; TWINS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84901592361     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-014-9647-9     Document Type: Article

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