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Heritability of children's prosocial behavior and differential susceptibility to parenting by variation in the dopamine receptor D4 gene.
Development and psychopathology - 1 Feb 2011
Knafo Ariel, Israel Salomon, Ebstein Richard P
Abstract excerpt
Theoretical considerations and new empirical evidence suggest that children's development cannot simply be explained by either genes or environment but that their interaction is important to understanding child behavior. In particular, a genetic polymorphism, the exon III repeat region of the dopamine receptor D4, has been the focus of interest regarding differential susceptibility to parental influence. To study...
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