TY - JOUR
T1 - Differential genetic and environmental influences on developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior from adolescence to young adulthood
AU - Zheng, Yao
AU - Cleveland, H. Harrington
N1 - Funding Information:
Earlier work of this article was presented at the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood biannual meeting, Providence, RI, October 2011, and at the annual meeting of American Society of Criminology, Washington D. C., November 2011. This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website ( http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth ). No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis. Research reported in this article was supported by the Penn State Population Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health under award number R24-HD041025 . We thank Lee Carpenter for reading and editing the manuscript.
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PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - Little research has investigated differential genetic and environmental influences on different developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior. This study examined genetic and environmental influences on liabilities of being in life-course-persistent (LCP) and adolescent-limited (AL) type delinquent groups from adolescence to young adulthood while considering nonviolent and violent delinquency subtypes and gender differences. A genetically informative sample (n = 356, 15-16 years) from the first three waves of In-Home Interview of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health was used, with 94 monozygotic and 84 dizygotic pairs of same-sex twins (50% male). Biometric liability threshold models were fit and found that the male-specific LCP type class, chronic, showed more genetic influences, while the AL type classes, decliner and desister, showed more environmental influences. Genetic liability and shared environment both influence the persistence of antisocial behavior. The development of female antisocial behavior appears to be influenced more by shared environment.
AB - Little research has investigated differential genetic and environmental influences on different developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior. This study examined genetic and environmental influences on liabilities of being in life-course-persistent (LCP) and adolescent-limited (AL) type delinquent groups from adolescence to young adulthood while considering nonviolent and violent delinquency subtypes and gender differences. A genetically informative sample (n = 356, 15-16 years) from the first three waves of In-Home Interview of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health was used, with 94 monozygotic and 84 dizygotic pairs of same-sex twins (50% male). Biometric liability threshold models were fit and found that the male-specific LCP type class, chronic, showed more genetic influences, while the AL type classes, decliner and desister, showed more environmental influences. Genetic liability and shared environment both influence the persistence of antisocial behavior. The development of female antisocial behavior appears to be influenced more by shared environment.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.10.006
DO - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.10.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 26510191
AN - SCOPUS:84945262831
SN - 0140-1971
VL - 45
SP - 204
EP - 213
JO - Journal of Adolescence
JF - Journal of Adolescence
ER -