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Genotype-environment interaction in children's adjustment to parental separation.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines - 1 Sept 2003
O'Connor Thomas G, Caspi Avshalom, Defries John C, Plomin Robert
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BACKGROUND: Understanding the processes by which genetic risks lead to psychopathology is a key conceptual and methodological task for research. The current study, based on an at-risk adoption design, examines the hypothesis that the effect of genetic risk on children's behavioral/emotional problems and social adjustment is moderated by psychosocial risk, specifically parental separation. METHOD: Data are based...
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