Sentences with phrase «shared environmental factors»

In their study of monozygotic twin pairs in the Add Health sample, the associations of sleep duration with several outcomes including suicidal ideation, delinquency, and drug use were reduced to non-significance when genetic and shared environmental factors were accounted for in the model.

The large role shared environmental factors play in attachment (about 50 % in the Bokhorst et al. study) 11 is remarkable.

«More generally, the limited role of shared environmental factors in physical aggression clashes with the results of studies of singletons in which many family or parent level factors were found to predict developmental trajectories of physical aggression during preschool.»

The National Cancer Institute's website notes that sometimes shared environmental factors, such as smoking or a prevalence for obesity, can influence what types of cancer someone develops.

The influence of shared environmental factors on the methylation pattern was low (c2 = 0.07 for all sites; c2 = 0.08 for 15,627 differentially methylated sites).

Studies that compare genetically identical twins with fraternal twins — who only share half of their twin's DNA — help distinguish the effects of genes from the effects of shared environmental factors such as housing, schooling and childhood nutrition.

However, until now it had not been possible to pinpoint whether this was simply due to shared environmental factors or socioeconomic status.

Studying the two different types of twins allowed researchers to estimate the relative influence of three different factors on twins» trust and distrust trust behaviors: heritable factors — that is, genetic influences; shared environmental factors — that is, common experiences of growing up in the same family and interacting with the same immediate peers; and unshared environmental factors — or the siblings» unique experiences in life.

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Although people suffering from asthma share similar clinical symptoms, it is triggered by multiple genetic and environmental factors.

Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.

Schizophrenia is generally considered to be a disorder of brain development and it shares many risk factors, both genetic and environmental, with other neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and intellectual disability.

A shared upbringing accounted for only 36 per cent of the differences, with the remainder accounted for by environmental factors that weren't shared, such as each twin having a different teacher.

They found that choosing to continue studies at A-level was influenced in equal measure by genetic (44 %) factors and environmental factors shared by siblings growing up in the same home (47 %), for example schools, neighbourhoods or the home environment.

Since identical twins share the same genes, any differences between them must be spurred by environmental factors (like time spent in the gym).

In order to investigate potential unmeasured confounding by genetic or shared environmental or lifestyle factors, we used a parental comparison approach, whereby effect estimates for maternal sugar intake in pregnancy were compared with effect estimates for maternal and paternal sugar intake after pregnancy.

Altogether our results add more evidence for shared etiology and mechanisms of OCD in dogs and humans [6], and suggest that both environmental and genetic factors affect compulsive behaviour.

In conclusion, the early - onset and the variable nature of the repetitive behaviour, which is affected by environmental factors such as micronutrients, neutering and maternal care, share several similar components between canine and human compulsions and supports canine TC as a model for human OCD.

Worldwide, vegetation fires are showing a trend toward longer burning periods, increased fire severity, larger areas burned and increased (mostly human caused) frequency — with all of these factors contributing to more damaging environmental impacts, higher shares of emissions and increasing socioeconomic costs, including greater threats to human health and security.

Do you think the environmental factor is a reason why Spaniards use SocialCar or what would you say motivates them to do car sharing?

Aside from the sentence imposed, the J.R. Contracting case is also notable because the court held that the Regulatory Modernization Act (an Ontario statute enacted in 2008 that, principally, provides for information sharing between provincial ministries and bodies) provided the authority for the supervisor's environmental convictions to be treated by the Crown Prosecutor and court as an aggravating factor when sentencing for the OH&S violation.

Secular changes in sociodemographic factors responsible for increasing rates of CD may also account for the greater magnitude of shared environmental influences on variation in CD found among more recent cohorts.

In search of shared and nonshared environmental factors in security of attachment: A behavior — genetic study of the association between sensitivity and attachment security

Comparing 57 MZ and 81 DZ twin pairs, Bokhorst and colleagues [78] found only unique environmental factors accounting for the variance in disorganised vs. organised attachment, while both shared and non-shared environmental effects accounted for the variance in secure vs. insecure attachment.

Studzinski shared how the effects of environmental stressors on a child's development can be reduced with increased protective factors, such as social connections and parent support.

Furthermore, child - driven effects were mainly genetically mediated, and parent - driven effects were a function of both genetic and shared - environmental factors.

Few genetically - informative studies have attempted to explicitly identify the shared environmental (i.e., those environmental influences that contribute to sibling similarity) factors now known to contribute to adolescent delinquency.

For internalizing and externalizing problem behavior it was found that both genetic and shared environmental influences could be modeled by an underlying common factor, which explained variance in problem behavior from early adolescence into adulthood and accounted for stability over time.

Thus, twins share more environmental and genetic factors (as in the case of MZ twins) than non-twin siblings, which foster a strong relationship between MZ as well as DZ twins («twin situation»; Neyer, 2002; Fraley & Tancredy, 2012).

To avoid over - or underestimating the importance of each biometric latent factor, we restricted latent genetic (A), shared (C) and nonshared (E) environmental factors to 0 only when their factor loadings were estimated to be close to zero and not based on likelihood ratio tests as is common practice in the behavior genetics literature.

Larsson et al. (2006) also revealed that non-shared environmental factors could explain 37 % of variance in psychopathic traits, while shared environmental influences did not contribute.

Our goals were (1) to compare the trajectory of depressive symptoms among boys and girls from childhood into adolescence; (2) to analyze the role of genetic, shared, and unique environmental factors in depression among prepubertal and pubertal male and female twins; and (3) to investigate a possible common etiology between liability to depression and one salient index of the child's environment: past - year life events.

To investigate the extent to which three putative «environmental» risk factors, maternal punitive discipline (MPD), paternal punitive discipline (PPD) and negative life events (NLEs), share genetic influences with, and moderate the heritability of, externalizing behavior.