Genetic and Environmental Stability of Neuroticism From Adolescence to Adulthood

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 746-754

  Nivard, Michel G ^a   Middeldorp, Christel M ^a,b   Dolan, Conor V ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a,b,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

genetic correlation; personality; simplex models; stable environmental influences

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROSIS; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGE; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; TWINS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84951096032     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: 18392628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2015.80     Document Type: Article

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