Article
Genetic and environmental factors in health-related behaviors: studies on Finnish twins and twin families.
Twin research : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies - 1 Oct 2002
Kaprio Jaakko, Pulkkinen Lea, Rose Richard J
Abstract excerpt
Family, twin and adoption studies have provided evidence for familial and genetic influences on individual differences in disease risk and in human behavior. Attempts to identify individual genes accounting for these differences have not been outstandingly successful to date, and at best, known genes account for only a fraction of the familiality of most traits or diseases. More detailed knowledge of the dynamics...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Alcoholism
- Child
- Cohort Studies
- Databases, Factual
- Diseases in Twins
- Environment
- Family
- Feeding and Eating Disorders
- Finland
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Health Behavior
- Humans