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Genetic and environmental contributions to prosocial behaviour in 2- to 9-year-old South Korean twinsYoon Mi Hur
Chonnam National University, Kwangju, South Korea
Biol Lett 3:664-6. 2007..It is concluded that genetic and environmental influences on prosocial behaviour in young South Koreans are mostly similar to those in western samples...
Effects of the chorion type on prosocial behavior in young South Korean twinsYoon Mi Hur
Department of Psychology, Chonnam National University, Kwangju, South Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 10:773-7. 2007..These findings indicate that genetic and environmental factors in prosocial behavior estimated from twin studies are not significantly influenced by the chorion type of MZ twins...
Sex differences in genetic and environmental contributions to depression symptoms in South Korean adolescent and young adult twinsYoon Mi Hur
Department of Psychology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 11:306-13. 2008..Similar results were observed when 'culturally biased' items of the CES-D were separately analyzed. These variance components estimates for depression symptoms in East Asians overlap those observed in Caucasians...- Effects of chorion type on genetic and environmental influences on height, weight, and body mass index in South Korean young twinsYoon Mi Hur
Department of Psychology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 11:63-9. 2008.... - A recent rise in twin birth rates and demographic changes in mothers of twins in South Korea: 2003-2007Yoon Mi Hur
Department of Psychology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 12:118-22. 2009..In their sampling strategies, twin researchers should consider our findings of recent changes in demographic characteristics of parents of twins as well as increased DZ twin birth rates... - Comparisons of refractive errors between twins and singletons in Chinese school-age samplesYoon Mi Hur
Department of Psychology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 12:86-92. 2009.... - Sex difference in heritability of BMI in South Korean adolescent twinsYoon Mi Hur
Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:2908-11. 2007..These estimates of genetic and environmental factors in BMI found among South Korean adolescent twins were broadly in the range of those reported in previous studies of BMI based on Western twin samples... - Heritability of the iridotrabecular angle width measured by optical coherence tomography in Chinese children: the Guangzhou twin eye studyMingguang He
State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 49:1356-61. 2008..To estimate the heritability of the iridotrabecular angle width measured by anterior segment optical coherence tomography (ASOCT) in a classic twin study... - Sex differences in genetic and environmental influences on obsessive-compulsive symptoms in South Korean adolescent and young adult twinsYoon Mi Hur
Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 11:314-20. 2008..41%) for the MOCIT was higher in males than in females. However, shared environmental influences did not attain statistical significance perhaps due to insufficient statistical power... - Heritability of central corneal thickness in Chinese: the Guangzhou Twin Eye StudyYingfeng Zheng
State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 49:4303-7. 2008..To assess the heritability of central corneal thickness (CCT) in Chinese children in a classic twin study... - Evidence for nonadditive genetic effects on Eysenck Personality Scales in South Korean twinsYoon Mi Hur
Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 10:373-8. 2007..For Neuroticism and Extraversion, models that included an additive genetic component fit better than those including a nonadditive genetic variance component... - Stability of genetic influence on morningness-eveningness: a cross-sectional examination of South Korean twins from preadolescence to young adulthoodYoon Mi Hur
Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
J Sleep Res 16:17-23. 2007.... - Seoul Twin Family Study: design, sampling, assessments, and future directionsYoon Mi Hur
Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Twin Res 5:389-93. 2002..We also plan to undertake molecular genetic studies to identify genes involved in specific cognitive abilities... - Nonadditive genetic effects on hostility in South Korean adolescent and young adult twinsYoon Mi Hur
Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Population, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:637-41. 2006.... - Twins have slightly higher self-concepts than singletons in the elementary school period: A study of South Korean twins and singletonsYoung-Soon Yoon
Hansung University, Seoul, South Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:233-9. 2006..Second, twins consistently exceeded singletons for all 6 cluster scales of the P-H. However, the effect sizes of differences between twins and singletons were small except for one scale, Physical Appearance and Attributes... - Genetic and environmental influences on birthweight in a sample of Korean twinsYoon Mi Hur
Neuroscience Research Institute, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Korea
J Korean Med Sci 20:355-60. 2005..Model-fitting analyses based on the data pooled across gender yielded estimates of 17% for genetic, 60% for shared environmental, and 23% for nonshared environmental influences on birthweight... - Genetic and environmental influences on self-concept in female preadolescent twins: comparison of Minnesota and Seoul dataYoon Mi Hur
Neuroscience Research Institute, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 8:291-9. 2005..For Popularity, Anxiety, and Behavior, however, the genetic and environmental estimates were comparable between the two samples... - Assortive mating for personaltiy traits, educational level, religious affiliation, height, weight, adn body mass index in parents of Korean twin sampleYoon Mi Hur
Graduate School of Education, Hansung University, Seoul, Korea
Twin Res 6:467-70. 2003..05)m and body mass index (r = .11). These results were remarkably similar to those found from the western samples. Implications of the present findings in behavior genetic studies and human mating patterns were briefly discussed... - Changes in twinning rates in South Korea: 1981-2002Yoon Mi Hur
Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 8:76-9. 2005..The results did not support the recent finding of higher twinning incidence in industrialized regions... - A comparison of twin birthweight data from Australia, the Netherlands, the United States, Japan, and South Korea: are genetic and environmental variations in birthweight similar in Caucasians and East Asians?Yoon Mi Hur
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 8:638-48. 2005..Recent molecular findings and specific environmental factors that are subsumed by maternal effects are discussed... - Angiotensinogen G(-6)A polymorphism is associated with the elevation of blood pressure in the hypertensive disorders of pregnancySoon Sup Shim
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:76-80. 2006..The present findings imply that the elevation of BP can serve as an endophenotype for a spectrum of hypertensive conditions in pregnancy... - Twin registries: an ongoing success storyAndreas Busjahn
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:705. 2006 - The South Korean Twin RegistryYoon Mi Hur
Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, 28 Yongon Dong, Chongno Gu, Seoul 110 799, South Korea
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:838-43. 2006..The present article describes a brief history of the SKTR, goals and current research highlights, recent major accomplishments, and future directions...