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Parenting and Child DRD4 Genotype Interact to Predict Children's Early Emerging Effortful Control.
Child development - 1 Nov 2012
Smith Heather J, Sheikh Haroon I, Dyson Margaret W, Olino Thomas M, Laptook Rebecca S, Durbin C Emily, Hayden Elizabeth P, Singh Shiva M, Klein Daniel N
Abstract excerpt
Effortful control (EC), or the trait-like capacity to regulate dominant responses, has important implications for children's development. Although genetic factors and parenting likely influence EC, few studies have examined whether they interact to predict its development. This study examined whether the DRD4 exon III variable number tandem repeat polymorphism moderated the relation between parenting and...
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