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    Genome-Wide Association Study of Behavioral Disinhibition in a Selected Adolescent Sample

    Behavioral disinhibition (BD) is a quantitative measure designed to capture the heritable variation encompassing risky and impulsive behaviors. As a result, BD represents an ideal target for discovering genet...

    Jaime Derringer, Robin P. Corley, Brett C. Haberstick, Susan E. Young… in Behavior Genetics (2015)

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    Population Frequencies of the Triallelic 5HTTLPR in Six Ethnicially Diverse Samples from North America, Southeast Asia, and Africa

    Genetic differences between populations are potentially an important contributor to health disparities around the globe. As differences in gene frequencies influence study design, it is important to have a th...

    Brett C. Haberstick, Andrew Smolen, Redford B. Williams… in Behavior Genetics (2015)

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    Simple Sequence Repeats in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health: An Ethnically Diverse Resource for Genetic Analysis of Health and Behavior

    Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are one of the earliest available forms of genetic variation available for analysis and have been utilized in studies of neurological, behavioral, and health phenotypes. Although...

    Brett C. Haberstick, Andrew Smolen, Gary L. Stetler, Joyce W. Tabor… in Behavior Genetics (2014)

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    Is the Gene-Environment Interaction Paradigm Relevant to Genome-Wide Studies? The Case of Education and Body Mass Index

    This study uses data from the Framingham Heart Study to examine the relevance of the gene-environment interaction paradigm for genome-wide association studies (GWAS). We use completed college education as our ...

    Jason D. Boardman, Benjamin W. Domingue, Casey L. Blalock… in Demography (2014)

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    Stable Genes and Changing Environments: Body Mass Index Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood

    The transition between adolescence and young adulthood is a developmentally sensitive time where children are at an increased risk for becoming overweight and develo** obesity. Twin studies have reported tha...

    Brett C. Haberstick, Jeffery M. Lessem, Matthew B. McQueen… in Behavior Genetics (2010)

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    The Association Between Conduct Problems and Maltreatment: Testing Genetic and Environmental Mediation

    It is often assumed that childhood maltreatment causes conduct problems via an environmentally mediated process. However, the association may be due alternatively to either a nonpassive gene-environment correl...

    R. Jay Schulz-Heik, Soo Hyun Rhee, Louise E. Silvern… in Behavior Genetics (2010)

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    The Developmental Etiology of High IQ

    The genetic and environmental trends in IQ development were assessed in 483 same-sex twin pairs in the Colorado longitudinal twin study using maximum-likelihood model-fitting analysis. The twins were assessed ...

    Angela M. Brant, Brett C. Haberstick, Robin P. Corley… in Behavior Genetics (2009)

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    Investigation of Genetically Mediated Child Effects on Maltreatment

    Theory and empirical evidence suggest that children’s genetically influenced characteristics help to shape the environments they experience, including the parenting they ‘receive’. The extent of these genetica...

    R. Jay Schulz-Heik, Soo Hyun Rhee, Louise Silvern, Jeffrey M. Lessem… in Behavior Genetics (2009)

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    Do Schools Moderate the Genetic Determinants of Smoking?

    This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine the extent to which school-level social and institutional factors moderate genetic tendencies to smoke cigarettes. Our ...

    Jason D. Boardman, Jarron M. Saint Onge, Brett C. Haberstick… in Behavior Genetics (2008)

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    Genes and Developmental Stabiltiy of Aggressive Behavior Problems at Home and School in a Community Sample of Twins Aged 7–12

    Though behavioral genetic studies of aggression have implicated heritable and environmental factors, there is limited understanding of how these factors influence aggression across different settings and over ...

    Brett C. Haberstick, Stephanie Schmitz, Susan E. Young, John K. Hewitt in Behavior Genetics (2006)

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    Relationship between Adolescent Marijuana Use and Young Adult Illicit Drug Use

    We examined three components of the “gateway theory” in relation to marijuana use: (1) whether adolescent marijuana use predicts young adult drug use, (2) whether this association persists when controlling for...

    Jeffrey M. Lessem, Christian J. Hopfer, Brett C. Haberstick… in Behavior Genetics (2006)

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    Contributions of Genes and Environments to Stability and Change in Externalizing and Internalizing Problems During Elementary and Middle School

    We examined longitudinally collected behavioral reports by teachers on a unique twin sample at the ages of 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 years. As twin and adoption studies implicate the role of genetic influence on...

    Brett C. Haberstick, Stephanie Schmitz, Susan E. Young, John K. Hewitt in Behavior Genetics (2005)

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    Genoty** of Three Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Following Whole Genome Preamplification of DNA Collected from Buccal Cells

    Collection of genomic DNA from buccal cells is a simple and convenient procedure for genoty** individuals. One disadvantage is that the amount of genomic DNA may be inadequate for genoty** projects that re...

    Brett C. Haberstick, Andrew Smolen in Behavior Genetics (2004)