Article
Emergenesis. Genetic traits that may not run in families.
The American psychologist - 1 Dec 1992
Lykken D T, McGue M, Tellegen A, Bouchard T J
Abstract excerpt
Traits that are influenced by a configuration--rather than by a simple sum--of polymorphic genes may not be seen to be genetic unless one studies monozygotic twins (who share all their genes and thus all gene configurations) because such "emergenic" traits will tend not to run in families. Personal idiosyncrasies that have been found to be surprisingly concordant among MZ twins separated in infancy and reared...
Topics
- Adult
- Diseases in Twins
- Female
- Humans
- Intelligence
- Male
- Personality
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Social Environment
- Twins, Monozygotic