Modeling Gene-Environment Interactions With Quasi-Natural Experiments

Journal of Personality

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 10-21

  Schmitz, Lauren ^a   Conley, Dalton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MODEL; STRATIFICATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL;

GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84951102919     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12227     Document Type: Article

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