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The nature of nurture: a genomewide association scan for family chaos.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jul 2008
Butcher Lee M, Plomin Robert
Abstract excerpt
Widely used measures of the environment, especially the family environment of children, show genetic influence in dozens of twin and adoption studies. This phenomenon is known as gene-environment correlation in which genetically driven influences of individuals affect their environments. We conducted the first genome-wide association (GWA) analysis of an environmental measure. We used a measure called CHAOS which...
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