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Commentary: The strength of multivariate twin studies: testing for shared and distinctive aetiology among different sets of behavioural traits – reflections on Lewis et al. (2014)
Author(s) -
Boomsma Dorret I.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/jcpp.12292
Subject(s) - psychology , twin study , multivariate statistics , pleiotropy , behavioural genetics , causality (physics) , perspective (graphical) , multivariate analysis , personality , developmental psychology , value (mathematics) , big five personality traits , etiology , variation (astronomy) , clinical psychology , heritability , social psychology , evolutionary biology , genetics , psychiatry , biology , phenotype , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , quantum mechanics , machine learning , statistics , physics , astrophysics , gene
This contribution discusses the article by Lewis et al. on the relationship between variation in normal personality and adolescent behavioural problems and puts the study into the perspective of the value of twin studies of multivariate behavioural traits, which enable the analyses of genetic pleiotropy and causality.