Genotype × Cohort Interaction on Completed Fertility and Age at First Birth

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 71-83

  Briley, Daniel A ^a   Harden, K Paige ^a   Tucker Drob, Elliot M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Age at first birth; Fertility; Quantitative genetics; Second demographic transition; Selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; SIBLING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TWINS; UNITED STATES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PATERNAL AGE; REPRODUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; PATERNAL AGE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84925537128     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-014-9693-3     Document Type: Article

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