TY - JOUR
T1 - The behavior genetics of personality and the NEAD study
AU - Loehlin, John C.
AU - Neiderhiser, Jenae M.
AU - Reiss, David
PY - 2003/10
Y1 - 2003/10
N2 - The striking behavior-genetic findings of the NEAD study of adjustment in adolescence (Reiss, Neiderhiser, Hetherington, & Plomin, 2000) - namely, high heritability (h2), substantial effects of shared family environment (c2) for some traits, and near-vanishing effects of non-shared environment (e2) - were largely confirmed in an independent analysis of the NEAD data. The considerable contribution of monozygotic twins to these results was established, suggesting the importance of nonadditive genetic variance in the adjustment domain. Prenatal maternal effects were tested for, and not found to make a statistically significant contribution to individual differences in adjustment.
AB - The striking behavior-genetic findings of the NEAD study of adjustment in adolescence (Reiss, Neiderhiser, Hetherington, & Plomin, 2000) - namely, high heritability (h2), substantial effects of shared family environment (c2) for some traits, and near-vanishing effects of non-shared environment (e2) - were largely confirmed in an independent analysis of the NEAD data. The considerable contribution of monozygotic twins to these results was established, suggesting the importance of nonadditive genetic variance in the adjustment domain. Prenatal maternal effects were tested for, and not found to make a statistically significant contribution to individual differences in adjustment.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0092-6566(03)00012-6
DO - 10.1016/S0092-6566(03)00012-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0141726804
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 37
SP - 373
EP - 387
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
IS - 5
ER -