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In: Twin research, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 53-64
ISSN: 2053-6003
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In: Twin research, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 53-64
ISSN: 2053-6003
In: Twin research and human genetics: the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies (ISTS) and the Human Genetics Society of Australasia, Volume 10, Issue S1, p. 23-59
ISSN: 1839-2628
In: Twin research, Volume 6, Issue 6, p. 486-489
ISSN: 2053-6003
In: Twin research, Volume 7, Issue 4, p. 336-384
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In: Twin research, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 168-214
ISSN: 2053-6003
In: Twin research, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 168-214
ISSN: 2053-6003
AbstractProgramme Committee: Elizabeth Bryan, Isaac Blickstein, Nick Martin, Pat Preedy, Tim Spector
In: Twin research and human genetics: the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies (ISTS) and the Human Genetics Society of Australasia, Volume 16, Issue 1, p. 173-178
ISSN: 1839-2628
This article summarizes the status of three recent German twin studies: CoSMoS, SOEP, and ChronoS. The German twin study on Cognitive Ability, Self-Reported Motivation, and School Achievement (CoSMoS) is a three-wave longitudinal study of monozygotic and dizygotic twins reared together, and aims to investigate predictors of and influences on school performance. In the first wave of the data collection in 2005, 408 pairs of twins aged between 7 and 11 as well as their parents participated in CoSMoS. The SOEP twin study is an extended twin study, which has combined data from monozygotic and dizygotic twins reared together with additional data from full sibling pairs, mother–child, and grandparent–child dyads who participated in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) study. The SOEP twin project comprises about 350 twin and 950 non-twin pairs aged between 17 and 70. Data were collected between 2009 and 2010, with a focus on personality traits, wellbeing, education, employment, income, living situation, life-satisfaction, and several attitudes. The aim of the Chronotype twin study (ChronoS) was to examine genetic and environmental influences on chronotype (morningness and eveningness), coping strategies, and several aspects of the previous SOEP twin project in a sample of 301 twin pairs aged between 19 and 76 years, recruited in 2010 and 2011. Part of the ChronoS twin sample also participated in the earlier SOEP twin study, representing a second wave of assessments. We briefly describe the design and contents of these three studies as well as selected recent findings.
In: Twin research and human genetics: the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies (ISTS) and the Human Genetics Society of Australasia, Volume 8, Issue 5, p. 467-482
ISSN: 1839-2628
The Trouble with Twin Studies questions popular genetic explanations of human behavioral differences based upon the existing body of twin research. Psychologist Jay Joseph outlines the fallacies of twin studies in the context of the ongoing decades-long failure to discover genes for human behavioral differences, including IQ, personality, and the major psychiatric disorders. This volume critically examines twin research, with a special emphasis on reared-apart twin studies, and incorporates new and updated perspectives, analyses, arguments, and evidence.
In: Twin research, Volume 4, Issue 2, p. 81-93
ISSN: 2053-6003
In: Political analysis: PA ; the official journal of the Society for Political Methodology and the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, Volume 17, Issue 2, p. 191-214
ISSN: 1476-4989
As political scientists begin to incorporate biological influences as explanatory factors in political behavior, the need to present a methodological road map for utilizing biometric genetic theory and twin data is apparent. The classical twin design (CTD) remains the most popular design for initial examinations of the source of variance among social and political behaviors, and a vast majority of advanced variance components models as well as some molecular analyses are extensions of the CTD. Thus, it is appropriate to begin a series of works with the CTD and its most common variants. The CTD has strong roots in biometrical genetic theory and provides estimates of the correlations between observed traits of monozygotic and dizygotic twins in terms of underlying genetic and environmental influences. The majority of these analyses utilize SEMs of observed covariances for both twin types to assess the relative importance of these "latent" factors.
In: Political analysis: official journal of the Society for Political Methodology, the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, Volume 17, Issue 2, p. 191
ISSN: 1047-1987
In: Political Analysis, Volume 17, Issue 2, p. 191-214
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In: Contexts / American Sociological Association: understanding people in their social worlds, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 43-47
ISSN: 1537-6052
Twin studies used to be almost the only way to compare the influence of genes against the environment on personality and behavior. Recent advances in genetics, however, suggest that opposing "nature" to "nurture" is misleading. Genes combine with the environment to produce complex human traits.