期刊: BEHAVIOR GENETICS, 2021; 51 (4)
Nicotine dependence and smoking quantity are both robustly associated with the CHRNA5-A3-B4 gene cluster in the 15q25 region, and SNP rs16969968 in pa......
Genetic effects on the liability scale are informative for describing the genetic architecture of binary traits, typically diseases. However, most gen......
Disaggregation and estimation of genetic effects from offspring and parents has long been of interest to statistical geneticists. Recently, technical ......
期刊: BEHAVIOR GENETICS, 2020; 50 (5)
Recently, methods have been introduced using polygenic scores (PGS) to estimate the effects of genetic nurture, the environmentally-mediated effects o......
期刊: BEHAVIOR GENETICS, 2020; 50 (3)
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a heritable mental retardation disease caused by unstable trinucleotide repeat sequences in FMR1. FXS is characterized by ......
期刊: BEHAVIOR GENETICS, 2019; 49 (5)
The epsilon 4 allele of the apolipoprotein (APOE) gene is a widely recognized genetic risk factor for developing Alzheimer's disease in older age. How......
期刊: BEHAVIOR GENETICS, 2018; 48 (4)
The extent to which correlations between personality domains and physical and psychological health generalize cross-culturally is unclear. We compared......
期刊: BEHAVIOR GENETICS, 2017; 47 (2)
The present study examined the adequacy of a three-item parent questionnaire in determining the zygosity of young Chinese twins and whether there was ......
期刊: BEHAVIOR GENETICS, 2017; 47 (3)
The gene encoding the serotonin receptor 5-hydroxytraptamine 2C (HTR2C) has been implicated in behavioral phenotypes in a number of species. In previo......
期刊: BEHAVIOR GENETICS, 2017; 47 (4)
Anxiety symptoms occur in a large portion of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. ApolipoproteinE-4 (ApoE epsilon 4 allele), a risk factor for AD, has b......