Sentences with phrase «adult twin study»

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His study of 35,000 adult identical twins in Denmark indicated that the more children a mother had, the less happy she was.

A study of 1,788 adult twins is the first to demonstrate a gene by environment interaction between self - reported habitual sleep duration and depressive symptoms.

Bouchard helped introduce a new study approach by systematically finding and following adult twins who had been separated since their early childhoods.

From that larger study of adult Caucasian twins, study authors analyzed data from a sample of 1,790 men, provided through structured clinical interviews that included retrospective reports of their own drinking as well as their peers» alcohol - related behaviors from adolescence into young adulthood, ages 12 to 25 years.

Data came from TwinsUK — the biggest UK adult twin registry of 12,000 twins which is used to study the genetic and environmental causes of age related disease.

A longitudinal twin study of insomnia symptoms in adults.

Heritability estimates for obsessive - compulsive symptoms based on twin studies are 0.25 — 0.45 for adults and 0.45 — 0.65 for children [3], [8].

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Genetic and environmental aspects in the association between attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms and binge - eating behavior in adults: a twin study.

The study included monozygotic and same - and opposite - sex dizygotic twins, who were taking part in the Study of Twin Adults: Genes and Environment (STstudy included monozygotic and same - and opposite - sex dizygotic twins, who were taking part in the Study of Twin Adults: Genes and Environment (STStudy of Twin Adults: Genes and Environment (STAGE).

Background Family and twin studies suggest that juvenile - onset major depressive disorder (MDD) may be etiologically distinct from adult - onset MDD.

On a side note, studies in adult male twins show insignificant rates of aggression (Rushton, Fulker, Neale, Nias, & Eysenck, 1986) and this study shows that not every child who has a behavioral disorder in their youth will continue displaying these traits into adulthood.

Typical twin concordance rates for adolescent delinquency are 87 % for monozygotic twins and 72 % for dizygotic twins.11 Adoption studies suggest that genetically vulnerable children - that is, children whose birth parents were antisocial - may be especially susceptible to unfavourable family conditions, so that an interaction is seen (fig 12 The genetic element seems to be stronger for adult criminality than childhood conduct disorder and delinquency.13 To understand what these environmental and genetic factors might be, we need to turn to other studies.

Relative to twin designs, adoption studies are less sensitive in detecting genetic effects, in part because only additive genetic influences between adult birth parents and, in this case, young children are examined.

Together with collaborators Stephen Malone in the Psychology Department and Kathleen Thomas in the Institute for Child Development, my work examines neurocognitive and mental health outcomes for twins who were first studied in pre-adolescence and are now adults.