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Flexible Mx specification of various extended twin kinship designs.
Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies - 1 Feb 2009
Maes Hermine H, Neale Michael C, Medland Sarah E, Keller Matthew C, Martin Nicholas G, Heath Andrew C, Eaves Lindon J
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The extended twin kinship design allows the simultaneous testing of additive and nonadditive genetic, shared and individual-specific environmental factors, as well as sex differences in the expression of genes and environment in the presence of assortative mating and combined genetic and cultural transmission (Eaves et al., 1999). It also handles the contribution of these sources of variance to the (co)variation...
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