Background The possible causes of greater depression among adolescent girls were investigated by examining variation in the influence of genetic and environmental risk factors among 182 prepubertal female, 237 prepubertal male, 314 pubertal female, and 171 pubertal male twin pairs from the Virginia
Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development.
The main effects of genes and environment of behavioral problems in the Virginia
Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development
The possible causes of greater depression among adolescent girls were investigated by examining variation in the influence of genetic and environmental risk factors among 182 prepubertal female, 237 prepubertal male, 314 pubertal female, and 171 pubertal male twin pairs from the Virginia
Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development.
A twin study of hyperactivity — I.
To further explore the influence of genetic and environmental risk factors on adolescent depression, particularly among adolescent girls, data on depression in prepubertal and pubertal male and female same - sex twins from the Virginia
Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development were analyzed.
The main effects of genes and environment on behavioral problems in the Virginia
Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development
The Virginia
twin study of adolescent behavioral development.
The main effects of genetics and environment of behavioral problems in the Virginia
twin study of adolescent behavioral development
A twin study of hyperactivity 1.
Heterogeneity among juvenile antisocial behaviours: findings from the Virginia
twin study of adolescent behaviour.
A twin study of the association between pathological gambling and antisocial personality disorder.
A population - based
twin study of major depression in women: the impact of varying definitions of illness
A twin study of infant attachment security at age 24 months was conducted on archival data for a sample of 99 MZ pairs and 108 DZ pairs from the Louisville Twin Study.
A twin study of marital status and alcohol consumption.
It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia
Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.
Twin study of the etiology of comorbidity between reading disability and atten - tion - deficit / hyperactivity disorder.
A longitudinal
twin study of fears from middle childhood to early adulthood: evidence for a developmentally dynamic genome
Twin pairs (N = 1350), aged 8 to 16 years, in the general population - based Virginia
Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development were assessed using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment interview administered separately to both twins and both parents.
A longitudinal
twin study of insomnia symptoms in adults.
«This is by far the largest
twin study of gene expression ever published, enabling us to make a roadmap of genes versus environment,» Sullivan says, adding that the study measured relationships with disease more precisely than had been previously possible, and uncovered important connections to recent human evolution and genetic influence in disease.
Past
twin studies of autism had flaws, however.
Classic
twin studies of the past focused primarily on the similarities in identical siblings, especially in the relatively rare pairs who were raised apart.
Twin studies of child temperament using objective measures consistently suggest moderate heritability for most dimensions.
Most of the existing
twin studies of attachment overviewed here have not been designed to focus on attachment, therefore they are quite heterogeneous regarding children's age and the method of assessment.
Although
twin studies of attachment are providing mixed results, molecular genetic studies are showing that specific genetic polymorphisms of the dopaminergic and serotonergic neurotransmisson systems may moderate the statistically identified links between caregivers» behaviour and infant attachment.
Not exact matches
This discovery was made by
studying the differences in creative thinking between sets
of twins.
Cases
of identical
twins separated at birth who were outlined in this
study indicated that only one third
of our ability to think creatively is genetic.
In the case, the
twins alleged that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took from their idea
of a social network platform, which they developed while
studying at Harvard University.
Dispassionate readers, who have
studied the Galileo caricature
of a war between science and religion will know that, apart from that sorry, somewhat isolated affair, the Catholic Church and the science lab have long been conjoined
twins in the advancement
of knowledge.
Correction: In describing J. Michael Bailey's
study of identical -
twin pairs in his «Same - Sex Science» (February), Stanton L. Jones should have referred to 41 rather than 42 pairs
studied.
In support
of the argument that at least sometimes sexual orientation is a condition
of birth, Bruni describes how «One landmark
study looked at gay men's brothers and found that 52 %
of identical
twin brothers were also gay.»
A recent
twin study found that in the case
of identical
twins, who have identical genetics, If one
of the
twins is gay their is about a 50 % chance that the other
twin will identify as gay.
In the history
of U.S. Catholic higher education since World War II, three seminal moments stand out: Msgr. John Tracy Ellis's 1955 article, «American Catholics and the Intellectual Life»; the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, «The Idea
of a Catholic University»; and the day Don J. Briel began the Catholic
Studies Program — and the Catholic
Studies movement — at the University
of St. Thomas in the
Twin Cities.
By the end
of the eighteenth century, the
twin challenges
of the natural sciences, along with their philosophical interpreters, and
of scientific historical
study profoundly challenged the credibility
of received forms
of Christian faith.
Energy from macronutrient and food group intakes at 21 mo
of age: the Gemini
twin cohort (whole
study population and consumers) 1
«What it's like to be a man working in a childcare centre»: case
study of twins Jack and Nick, by Claire Stephens (March 2016) for The Motherish.
Chamomile attended Evergreen University in Olympia Washington and then the University
of Minnesota
Twin Cities graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Women
Studies with a minor in Dance.
So far, the
studies of specific genes have shown conflicting results as to whether they cause hyperovulation or increase the chance
of having fraternal
twins.
Population
studies have shown that some groups
of people have
twins much more frequently, while
twins are rare among other groups.
A 2011
study showed that the highest rates
of twinning were found in Central African populations, with the country
of Benin producing the most
twins.
And a
twin study — using the tools
of behavioral genetics — found that genetic factors had a negligible impact on the development
of theory
of mind skills (Hughes et al 2005).
JonaRose Feinberg: And I have heard again I don't have
studied about this but anecdotally it seems like identical
twins are more likely to put themselves on a similar schedule both in terms
of the sleep week and then later on in terms
of their developmental milestones and things like that.
Using
studies of twins who had been separated at birth, yet displayed remarkably similar characteristics
of personality despite differences in environment, Harris demonstrated the importance
of genetic predisposition as a factor in human development.
A
study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility found that mothers with a high BMI (body mass index) were significantly more likely to have fraternal
twins than women
of normal weight.
This represents not only her twenty years
of studying and teaching choice theory around the country but also her twenty years
of parenting her identical
twin sons.
Specifically, a 2012
study by suggested that 28.6 percent and 9.3 percent
of mothers undergoing ovarian stimulation experienced
twin and higher - order pregnancies, respectively.
However, it should be mentioned that in that same
study, the risk
of miscarriage for women using IVF who carried
twins was just 18 %, which is within the typical range
of miscarriage risk for natural conception.
According to one
study, identical
twins made up 0.95 percent
of the pregnancies conceived with treatment.
The main issues in Australia regarding homebirth centre around the risks to the baby, with higher perinatal mortality rates reported in some
studies of homebirth [14, 15] however these
studies have included women with risk factors (e.g.,
twins, medical complications), so it is difficult to draw conclusions about low - risk women [14, 16].
Another
study showed that delivering a second
twin by cesarean because he's not in the head - down position poses a risk
of infection and provides no clear benefit for the infant or its mother.