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Do aggressive and non-aggressive antisocial behaviors in adolescents result from the same genetic and environmental effects?
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 15 Aug 2004
Button Tanya M M, Scourfield Jane, Martin Neilson, McGuffin Peter
Abstract excerpt
Antisocial behavior (ASB) in adolescents can broadly be separated into two forms; aggressive and non-aggressive. Both are heritable and it has been suggested that aggressive ASB is more heritable. The extent to which genes contribute to the correlation between the two is unknown. Structural equation modeling was applied to a population-based twin sample of 258 twins pairs aged 11-18 to estimate the heritability...
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