Testing Causal Effects of Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy on Offspring’s Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 378-388

  Dolan, C V ^a   Geels, L ^a   Vink, J M ^a,d   van Beijsterveldt, C E M ^a   Neale, M C ^a,b   Bartels, M ^a,c,d   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a,c,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causality; Childhood behavioral problems; Parental prenatal smoking; Pleiotropic effects

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR PROBLEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR PROBLEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL SMOKING; MOTHER; PATERNAL SMOKING; PREGNANCY; PROBLEM BEHAVIOR; PROGENY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; SMOKING CESSATION; TWINS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; TWINS;

EID: 84940549612     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-015-9738-2     Document Type: Article

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