Genetic Analysis of Sensation Seeking with an Extended Twin Design

Stoel, Reinoud D.; Geus, Eco J. C. de; Boomsma, Dorret I.

doi:10.1007/s10519-005-9028-5

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“…The data for the siblings was taken from a survey in which they were measured at about the same age as the twins. Compared to the twins, we selected an earlier survey of older siblings and a later survey for younger twins (Stoel et al, 2006). In addition to a comparison of the phenotypic resemblance between MZ and DZ twins, this design allows for an explicit test of the assumption that results from twins may be generalized to the singleton population.…”

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Netherlands Twin Register: From Twins to Twin Families

Boomsma¹,

et al. 2006

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Netherlands Twin Register: From Twins to Twin Families

Boomsma¹,

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“…Sensation seeking (Stoel, De Geus, and Boomsma 2006) Behavioral inhibition (Robinson et al 1992) Eating breakfast (Keski-Rahkonen et al…”

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Genetics and the Social Science Explanation of Individual Outcomes

Freese¹

2008

American Journal of Sociology

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Accumulating evidence from behavioral genetics suggests that the vast majority of individual-level outcomes of abiding sociological interest are genetically influenced to a substantial degree. This raises the question of the place of genetics in social science explanations. Genomic causation is described from a counterfactualist perspective, which makes its complexity plain and highlights the distinction between identifying causes and substantiating explanations. For explanation, genomic causes must be understood as strictly mediated by the body. One implication is that the challenge of behavioral genetics for sociology is much more a challenge from psychology than biology, and a main role for genetics is as a placeholder for ignorance of more proximate influences of psychological and other embodied variation. Social scientists should not take this challenge from psychology as suggesting any especially fundamental explanatory place for either it or genetics, but the contingent importance of genetic and psychological characteristics is itself available for sociological investigation.

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“…To maximize the statistical power and to test whether the results generalize to non-twins, the classical twin design was extended by including siblings (Posthuma & Boomsma, 2000 ;Stoel et al 2006). OC symptoms were assessed using the adult version of the CBCL-OCS, the Young Adult Self Report Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YASR-OCS).…”

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