The Nature of Nurture: Using a Virtual-Parent Design to Test Parenting Effects on Children's Educational Attainment in Genotyped Families

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 73-83

  Bates, Timothy C ^a   Maher, Brion S ^b   Medland, Sarah E ^c   McAloney, Kerrie ^c   Wright, Margaret J ^d   Hansell, Narelle K ^d   Kendler, Kenneth S ^e   Martin, Nicholas G ^c   Gillespie, Nathan A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

educational attainment; non transmitted genotype; parental environment; virtual parent design

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EDUCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC RELATEDNESS; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; POLYGENIC RISK SCORE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SOCIAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TWINS; VIRTUAL PARENT DESIGN; ZYGOSITY; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MALE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELES; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTING; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TWINS;

EID: 85043538706     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: 18392628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2018.11     Document Type: Article

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