Methodology For Genetic Studies Of Twins And Families

Author : M. Neale,L.R. Cardon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401580182

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Methodology for Genetic Studies of Twins and Families by M. Neale,L.R. Cardon Pdf

Few would dispute the truth of the statement `People are Different', but there is much controversy over why. This book authoritatively explains the methods used to understand human variation, and extends them far beyond the primary `nature or nurture' question. After chapters on basic statistics, biometrical genetics, matrix algebra and path analysis, there is a state-of-the-art account of how to fit genetic models using the LISREL package. The authors explain not only the assumptions of the twin method, but how to test them. The elementary model is expanded to cover sex limitation, sibling interaction, multivariate and longitudinal data, observer ratings, and twin-family studies. Throughout, the methods are illustrated by applications to diverse areas such as obesity, major depression, alcohol comsumption, delinquency, allergies, and common fears.

Author : Michael Neale,Lon Cardon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0792318749

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Methodology for Genetic Studies of Twins and Families by Michael Neale,Lon Cardon Pdf

Few would dispute the truth of the statement `People are Different', but there is much controversy over why. This book authoritatively explains the methods used to understand human variation, and extends them far beyond the primary `nature or nurture' question. After chapters on basic statistics, biometrical genetics, matrix algebra and path analysis, there is a state-of-the-art account of how to fit genetic models using the LISREL package. The authors explain not only the assumptions of the twin method, but how to test them. The elementary model is expanded to cover sex limitation, sibling interaction, multivariate and longitudinal data, observer ratings, and twin-family studies. Throughout, the methods are illustrated by applications to diverse areas such as obesity, major depression, alcohol comsumption, delinquency, allergies, and common fears.

Author : Yong-Kyu Kim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387767277

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Handbook of Behavior Genetics by Yong-Kyu Kim Pdf

This handbook provides research guidelines to study roles of the genes and other factors involved in a variety of complex behaviors. Utilizing methodologies and theories commonly used in behavior genetics, each chapter features an overview of the selected topic, current issues, as well as current and future research.

Author : Bozzano G Luisa
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781483288468

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Genes, Culture, and Personality by Bozzano G Luisa Pdf

The diversity of human behavior is one of the most fascinating aspects of human biology. What makes our individual attitudes, lifestyle and personalities different has been the subject of many physiological and psychological theories. In this book the emphasis is on understanding the genetic and environmental causes of these differences. Genes, Culture, and Personality is an expansive account of the state of current knowledge about the causes of individual differences in personality and social attitudes. Based on almost two decades of empirical research, the authors have made a significant contribution to the debate on genetic and cultural inheritance in human behavior. The book should be required reading for psychologists, psychiatrists, sociobiologists, and geneticists.

Author : Adam D. Tarnoki,David L. Tarnoki,Jennifer R. Harris,Nancy L. Segal
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128215159

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Twin Research for Everyone by Adam D. Tarnoki,David L. Tarnoki,Jennifer R. Harris,Nancy L. Segal Pdf

Twin Research: Biology, Health, Epigenetics, and Psychology is a comprehensive, applied resource in twinning and twin studies that is grounded in the most impactful findings from twin research in recent years. While targeted to undergraduate and graduate students, this compendium will prove a valuable resource for scholars already familiar with twin studies, as well as those coming to the field for the first time. Here, more than forty experts across an array of disciplines examine twinning and twin research methodologies from the perspectives of biology, medicine, genetic and epigenetic influences, and neuroscience. Chapters provide clear instruction in both basic and advanced research methods, family and parenting aspects of twinning, twin studies as applied across various disease areas and medical specialties, genetic and epigenetic determinants of differentiation, and academic, neurological and cognitive development. The presentation of existing studies and methods instruction empowers students and researchers to apply twin-based research and advance new studies across a range of biomedical and behavioral fields, highlighting current research trends and future directions. Offers unique insights into twinning rates, mechanisms and factors surrounding twinship Provides clear instruction on both basic and advanced twin research methods and study design Features leading international experts in twin biology, genetics, health and psychology Examines findings from recent twin studies across a broad array of health and behavioral studies

Author : Grant C Townsend,Sandra K Pinkerton,James R Rogers,Michelle R Bockmann,Toby E Hughes
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781925261158

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Twin Studies: by Grant C Townsend,Sandra K Pinkerton,James R Rogers,Michelle R Bockmann,Toby E Hughes Pdf

This volume is about an ongoing long-term research initiative led by researchers from the School of Dentistry at the University of Adelaide. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the studies of the teeth and faces of Australian twins and their families that have extended over more than thirty years.

Author : Todd D. Little
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199934898

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The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Psychology: Vol. 2 by Todd D. Little Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Psychology provides an accessible and comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-science and a one-stop source for learning and reviewing current best-practices in a quantitative methods across the social, behavioral, and educational sciences.

Author : Nancy L. Segal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674070141

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Born Together—Reared Apart by Nancy L. Segal Pdf

The identical “Jim twins” were raised in separate families and met for the first time at age thirty-nine, only to discover that they both suffered tension headaches, bit their fingernails, smoked Salems, enjoyed woodworking, and vacationed on the same Florida beach. This example of the potential power of genetics captured widespread media attention in 1979 and inspired the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart. This landmark investigation into the nature-nurture debate shook the scientific community by demonstrating, across a number of traits, that twins reared separately are as alike as those raised together. As a postdoctoral fellow and then as assistant director of the Minnesota Study, Nancy L. Segal provides an eagerly anticipated overview of its scientific contributions and their effect on public consciousness. The study’s evidence of genetic influence on individual differences in traits such as personality (50%) and intelligence (70%) overturned conventional ideas about parenting and teaching. Treating children differently and nurturing their inherent talents suddenly seemed to be a fairer approach than treating them all the same. Findings of genetic influence on physiological characteristics such as cardiac and immunologic function have led to more targeted approaches to disease prevention and treatment. And indications of a stronger genetic influence on male than female homosexuality have furthered debate regarding sexual orientation.

Author : T. J. Bouchard,P. Propping
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993-12-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015026903149

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Twins as a Tool of Behavioral Genetics by T. J. Bouchard,P. Propping Pdf

Twins as a Tool of Behavioral Genetics Edited by T. J. Bouchard, Jr. P. Propping Every human being is genetically unique and consequently genetically different from every other human being. The one exception is identical (monozygotic) twins, who share exactly the same genome. Fraternal (dizygotic) twins share half of their genes in common by descent. Twins of both types constitute "an experiment of nature". Because it is unethical to carry out powerful experiments on human beings in order to explore the causes of variation in human traits, this natural experiment with all of its vicissitudes is one of the few windows we have with which to view the genetic and environmental determinants of complex human behavioral traits. Many scientists believe that twins can only be used to estimate "heritability" and that they reveal nothing about how genes influence behavior. In addition, they argue that modern molecular genetics will quickly make twin research obsolete. These widely held views are largely incorrect. Twins are a unique and very powerful tool for exploring a wide variety of hypotheses about both the distal (mostly genetic) and proximal (mostly environmental) origins of human individual differences. Scientific knowledge accumulates most rapidly when scientists ask the right questions and utilize the right tools—the right tools for the job. This book attempts to highlight the questions that might be most productively addressed through the use of twin designs. Every tool, however, has its limitations. This book carefully examines the limitations and assumptions associated with the application of the method to each of the domains discussed. Goal of this Dahlem Workshop: to evaluate the environmental and genetic mechanisms underlying the structure and development of behavior in twins studies: the achievements, limitations, and potentials.

Author : Robert Plomin
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002567662

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Nature and Nurture by Robert Plomin Pdf

* Brief, accessible overview of methods and findings of behavioral genetics written by a leading scholar in the field.

Author : Valerie S. Knopik,Jenae M. Neiderhiser,J. C. DeFries,Robert Plomin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Behavior genetics
ISBN : 1319364217

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Behavioral Genetics by Valerie S. Knopik,Jenae M. Neiderhiser,J. C. DeFries,Robert Plomin Pdf

Author : Shuai Li,John Hopper
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128209523

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Twin and Family Studies of Epigenetics by Shuai Li,John Hopper Pdf

Twin and Family Studies of Epigenetics, Volume 27, the latest release in the Translational Epigenetics series, gathers expert opinions on epigenetic twin and family study research methods, recent findings across various disease areas, and future directions. The book provides in-depth coverage of epigenetics fundamentals, twin and family epigenetic study design, and the broader role of epigenetics in answering questions on the developmental origins of health and disease. Throughout the volume, twin and family studies are employed to examine causes of epigenetic variation, the relationship between epigenetic modifications and mental illness, cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, and more. Emerging research methods applied in twin and family studies discussed include imaging epigenetics, exposure-specific DNA methylation changes, and unravelling time trends in epigenetic effects. Offers a practical, interdisciplinary approach across epigenetics, epidemiology and various disease specialties Applies epigenetic twin and family studies to determine the relationship between epigenetics and mental illness, cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure, among other diseases and disorders Features chapter contributions from a wide range of international researchers in the field

Author : Amy Wenzel
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 4200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781506353227

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology by Amy Wenzel Pdf

Abnormal and clinical psychology courses are offered in psychology programs at universities worldwide, but the most recent major encyclopedia on the topic was published many years ago. Although general psychology handbooks and encyclopedias include essays on abnormal and clinical psychology, such works do not provide students with an accessible reference for understanding the full scope of the field. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology, a 7-volume, A-Z work (print and electronic formats), will be such an authoritative work. Its more than 1,400 entries will provide information on fundamental approaches and theories, various mental health disorders, assessment tools and psychotherapeutic interventions, and the social, legal, and cultural frameworks that have contributed to debates in abnormal and clinical psychology. Key features include: 1,400 signed articles contained in 7 volumes and available in choice of print and/or electronic formats Although organized A-to-Z, front matter includes a Reader’s Guide grouping related entries thematically Back matter includes a Chronology, Resource Guide, Bibliography, and detailed Index Entries conclude with References/Further Readings and Cross-References to related entries The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and Cross-References between and among entries all combine to provide robust search-and-browse features in the electronic version.

Author : Nancy L. Segal
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0525944656

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Entwined Lives by Nancy L. Segal Pdf

A groundbreaking study of twins brings together the latest scientific research and case studies to explore the complexities of human behavior and development as it examines such topics as twins separated at birth, pseudotwins, the loss of a twin, the implications of new fertility drugs, and more. 10,000 first printing. Tour.

Author : Jonathan Slack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199676507

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Genes by Jonathan Slack Pdf

Explores the discovery, nature, and role of genes in evolution and development.