- Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed
2026/01/29 by Ben Shenhar, Glen Pridham, Thaís Lopes De Oliveira +5 · 2 voices · 9 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · Psychology · #Birth, Development, and Health #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Confounding #Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms #Heritability #Human health #Life span #Longevity #Missing heritability problem #Quantitative genetics #Twin study
- Higher dietary protein intake is associated with sarcopenia in older British twins
2023/02/01 by Mary Ní Lochlainn, Mary Ni Lochlainn, Ruth C E Bowyer +6 · 16 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · #Anthropometry #Biology #Body mass index #Confidence interval #Endocrinology #Heritability #Internal medicine #Logistic regression #Medicine #Muscle metabolism and nutrition #Nutrition and Health in Aging #Nutritional Studies and Diet #Odds ratio #Sarcopenia #Twin study
- Midlife Study of the Louisville Twins: Connecting Cognitive Development to Biological and Cognitive Aging
2019/12/09 by Christopher R. Beam, Eric Turkheimer, Deborah Finkel +7 · 1 citation
Medicine · Psychology · #Anticipation (artificial intelligence) #Biological age #Birth, Development, and Health #Cognition #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Cognitive skill #Developmental psychology #Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance #Gerontology #Heritability #Identity, Memory, and Therapy #Intelligence quotient #Medicine #Psychiatry #Psychology #Twin study
- Unraveling the Relation Between Reading Comprehension and Print Exposure
2019/11/16 by Florina Erbeli, Elsje van Bergen, Sara A. Hart +1 · 11 citations
Computer Science · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Causation #Child Development and Digital Technology #Cognitive psychology #Comprehension #Computer science #Developmental psychology #Educational Methods and Media Use #Genetics #Heritability #Linguistics #Ninth #Psychology #Reading (process) #Reading and Literacy Development #Reading comprehension #Relation (database) #Social psychology #Test (biology) #Twin study
- Genome-wide meta-analysis of cognitive empathy: heritability, and correlates with sex, neuropsychiatric conditions and cognition
2017/06/06 by Varun Warrier, Katrina L. Grasby, Florina Uzefovsky +15 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders #Autism Spectrum Disorder Research #Heritability #Twin study #Cognition #Psychology #Empathy #Behavioural genetics #Trait #Developmental psychology #Genetics #Biology #Psychiatry
- Happiness in Behaviour Genetics: An Update on Heritability and Changeability
2016/07/28 by Ragnhild Bang Nes, Espen Røysamb · 1 citation
Psychology · #Affect (linguistics) #Aging and Gerontology Research #Behavioural genetics #Biology #Developmental psychology #Genetic variants #Genetics #Genotype #Happiness #Heritability #Missing heritability problem #Optimism, Hope, and Well-being #Positive psychology #Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction #Psychological intervention #Psychology #Situational ethics #Social psychology #Twin study #Variation (astronomy)
- The Concordance and Heritability of Type 2 Diabetes in 34,166 Twin Pairs From International Twin Registers: The Discordant Twin (DISCOTWIN) Consortium
2015/12/01 by Gonneke Willemsen, Kirsten Ward, Christopher G. Bell +15 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals #Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks #Concordance #Twin study #Heritability #Demography #Type 2 diabetes #Medicine #Confidence interval #Monozygotic twin #Body mass index #Diabetes mellitus #Biology #Internal medicine #Genetics #Endocrinology
- The heritability of avoidant and dependent personality disorder assessed by personal interview and questionnaire
2012/04/06 by Line C. Gjerde, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Espen Røysamb +7 · 1 citation
Psychology · Medicine · #Personality Disorders and Psychopathology #Personality Traits and Psychology #Bipolar Disorder and Treatment #Heritability #Psychology #Norwegian #Personality #Big Five personality traits #Cohort #Clinical psychology #Twin study #Population #Personality Assessment Inventory #Psychiatry #Demography #Medicine #Internal medicine #Social psychology
- Gender Identity Disorder in Twins: A Review of the Case Report Literature
2011/12/06 by Gunter Heylens, Griet De Cuypere, Kenneth J. Zucker +5 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Psychology · Social Sciences · Medicine · #Sexual Differentiation and Disorders #LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy #Gender Roles and Identity Studies #Gender Identity Disorder #Etiology #Twin study #Psychology #Disorders of sex development #Concordance #Clinical psychology #Dizygotic twins #Developmental psychology #Gender identity #Medicine #Psychiatry #Internal medicine #Heritability #Biology #Genetics #Obstetrics #Social psychology
- Why are children in the same family so different from one another?
2011/06/01 by Robert Plomin, David N. Daniels · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · Psychology · #Biology #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Clinical psychology #Cognition #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Environmental health #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Genetics #Heredity #Heritability #Medicine #Nature versus nurture #Personality #Population #Psychology #Psychopathology #Social environment #Social psychology #Twin study #Variance (accounting) #Variety (cybernetics)
- Born to be Happy? The Etiology of Subjective Well-Being
2009/09/02 by Meike Bartels, Dorret I. Boomsma · 2 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · Medicine · #Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction #Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research #Health disparities and outcomes #Psychology #Subjective well-being #Happiness #Heritability #Multivariate statistics #Developmental psychology #Twin study #Health psychology #Life satisfaction #Multivariate analysis #Demography #Clinical psychology #Social psychology #Public health #Genetics #Medicine #Biology #Statistics
- Common Genetic Effects of Gender Atypical Behavior in Childhood and Sexual Orientation in Adulthood: A Study of Finnish Twins
2009/01/26 by Katarina Alanko, Pekka Santtila, Nicole Harlaar +8 · 22 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Behavioural genetics #Bivariate analysis #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Demography #Developmental psychology #Gender Roles and Identity Studies #Genetics #Heritability #Orientation (vector space) #Population #Psychology #Sexual behavior #Sexual orientation #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology #Twin study #Young adult
- Genetic and environmental bases of childhood antisocial behavior: A multi-informant twin study.
2007/05/01 by Laura A. Baker, Kristen C. Jacobson, Adrian Raine +2 · 29 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Aggression #Antisocial personality disorder #Autism Spectrum Disorder Research #Behavioural genetics #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Clinical psychology #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Conduct disorder #Demography #Developmental psychology #Ethnically diverse #Genetics #Heritability #Injury prevention #Juvenile delinquency #Multivariate analysis #Poison control #Population #Psychology #Twin study
- Stability of Genetic and Environmental Effects from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Results of Croatian Longitudinal Twin Study of Personality
2007/02/01 by Denis Bratko, Ana Butković · 1 citation
Psychology · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · #Personality Traits and Psychology #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Croatian #Twin study #Personality #Developmental psychology #Psychology #Longitudinal study #Clinical psychology #Social psychology #Medicine #Genetics #Biology #Heritability
- Genetic and Environmental Factors in Alexithymia: A Population-Based Study of 8,785 Danish Twin Pairs
2007/01/01 by Michael Martini Jørgensen, Robert Zachariae, Axel Skytthe +1 · 3 citations
Medicine · Psychology · #Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments #Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research #Traumatic Brain Injury Research #Alexithymia #Danish #Psychology #Twin study #Population #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Medicine #Genetics #Heritability #Biology #Environmental health
- Importance of genetic influences on chronic widespread pain
2006/04/27 by Kenji Kato, Patrick F. Sullivan, Birgitta Evengård +1 · 27 citations
Medicine · #Biology #Chronic pain #Clinical psychology #Concordance #Demography #Dizygotic twins #Fibromyalgia #Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research #Genetics #Heritability #Internal medicine #Medicine #Pain Mechanisms and Treatments #Physical therapy #Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments #Twin study
- Increased Caudate Dopamine D2 Receptor Availability as a Genetic Marker for Schizophrenia
2005/04/01 by Jussi Hirvonen, Theo G. M. van Erp, Theo G.M. van Erp +8 · 26 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Biology #Caudate nucleus #Dopamine #Dopamine receptor D2 #Genetics #Heritability #Internal medicine #Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications #Medicine #Neuroscience #Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychosis #Raclopride #Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) #Schizophrenia research and treatment #Twin study
- Molecular Genetics of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
2005/01/25 by Stephen V. Faraone, Roy H. Perlis, Alysa E. Doyle +4 · 48 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder #Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder #Behavioural genetics #Biology #Candidate gene #Clinical psychology #Evolutionary biology #Extant taxon #Functional Brain Connectivity Studies #Gene #Genetic architecture #Genetic association #Genetic variants #Genetics #Genome-wide association study #Genotype #Heritability #Missing heritability problem #Molecular genetics #Psychology #Quantitative trait locus #Single-nucleotide polymorphism #Twin study
- Genetic, Environmental and Immunologic Factors in the Etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders
2003/01/01 by Sven Bölte, Fritz Poustka · 1 citation
Neuroscience · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · Psychology · #Autism Spectrum Disorder Research #Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders #Virology and Viral Diseases #Autism #Etiology #Heritability of autism #Comorbidity #Mendelian inheritance #Autism spectrum disorder #Genetic predisposition #Twin study #Medicine #Psychology #Genetics #Psychiatry #Biology #Disease #Heritability #Gene #Pathology
- Genes and environment in asthma: a study of 4 year old twins
2001/11/01 by G Koeppen-Schomerus, Gesina Koeppen-Schomerus · 10 citations
Environmental Science · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Asthma #Asthma and respiratory diseases #Delphi Technique in Research #Demography #Ecology #Gene #Genetics #Gene–environment interaction #Genotype #Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging #Heritability #Internal medicine #Medicine #Multivariate statistics #Pediatrics #Statistics #Test (biology) #Twin study #Univariate
- Health locus of control in late life: A study of genetic and environmental influences in twins aged 80 years and older.
2001/01/01 by Boo Johansson, Julia D. Grant, Robert Plomin +4 · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Health Professions · Medicine · Psychology · #Health disparities and outcomes #Health and Wellbeing Research #Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet #Locus of control #Twin study #Psychology #Gerontology #Environmental health #Developmental psychology #Demography #Heritability #Medicine #Genetics #Biology #Sociology
- Causal Relationship Between Stressful Life Events and the Onset of Major Depression
1999/06/01 by Kenneth S. Kendler, Laura M. Karkowski, Carol A. Prescott · 70 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Clinical psychology #Demography #Depression (economics) #Dizygotic twin #Heritability #Internal medicine #Medicine #Mental Health Research Topics #Odds ratio #Population #Psychiatry #Psychology #Stress Responses and Cortisol #Treatment of Major Depression #Twin study
- Eye Color Changes Past Early Childhood
1997/05/01 by Laszlo Z. Bito · 3 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Psychology · Medicine · #melanin and skin pigmentation #Categorization, perception, and language #Ocular Disorders and Treatments #Concordance #Eye color #Dizygotic twins #Medicine #Ophthalmology #Dizygotic twin #Demography #Twin study #Heritability #Biology #Genetics #Internal medicine
- The “Equal Environments Assumption” in MZ-DZ Twin Comparisons: an Untenable Premise of Psychiatric Genetics?
1996/07/01 by Alvin Pam, S.S. Kemker, Colin A. Ross +1 · 1 citation
Psychology · Medicine · Neuroscience · #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy #Autism Spectrum Disorder Research #Premise #Psychiatric genetics #Twin study #Genetics #Psychology #Behavioural genetics #Psychiatry #Biology #Philosophy #Heritability #Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) #Epistemology
- Smoking and alcohol consumption in adult male twins: Genetic heritability and shared environmental influences
1990/01/01 by Gary E. Swan, Dorit Carmelli, Ray H. Rosenman +2 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · Psychology · #Alcohol #Alcohol consumption #Biology #Cigarette smoking #Demography #Environmental health #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Genetics #Heritability #Internal medicine #Medicine #Psychology #Twin study
- Overview: a current perspective on twin studies of schizophrenia
1983/11/01 by Kenneth S. Kendler · 19 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · Psychology · #Biology #Clinical psychology #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Computer science #Concordance #Developmental psychology #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Genetic similarity #Genetics #Heritability #Medicine #Perspective (graphical) #Psychiatry #Psychology #Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) #Similarity (geometry) #Twin study