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The influence of genetic factors and life stress on depression among adolescent girlsJ Silberg
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298 0003, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 56:225-32. 1999....- Genetic and environmental risk factors in adolescent substance useJudy Silberg
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298 0003, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:664-76. 2003..The present study was undertaken with the goal of understanding the causes of association between substance use and both conduct disturbance (CD) and depression in adolescent boys and girls... - Genetic and environmental influences on temperament in the first year of life: the Puerto Rico Infant Twin Study (PRINTS)Judy L Silberg
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 8:328-36. 2005..In contrast, a significant effect of the shared environment on the temperamental trait of unadaptability has not been reported previously... - Etiological heterogeneity in the development of antisocial behavior: the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development and the Young Adult Follow-UpJudy L Silberg
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0003, USA
Psychol Med 37:1193-202. 2007..Longitudinal, genetically informed, prospective data collected on a large population of male twins (n=1037) were used to examine developmental differences in the etiology of antisocial behavior... - Genetic moderation of environmental risk for depression and anxiety in adolescent girlsJ Silberg
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0030, USA
Br J Psychiatry 179:116-21. 2001..There is huge individual variation in people's response to negative life events... - Application of Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling to item-response theory modeling of multi-symptom genetic dataLindon Eaves
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0003, USA
Behav Genet 35:765-80. 2005..Additional benefits of the IRT approach are discussed including the estimation of latent trait scores, including genetic factor scores, and their sampling errors... - The relationship between separation anxiety and impairmentDebra L Foley
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
J Anxiety Disord 22:635-41. 2008..The results indicate that impairment may index current treatment need but symptom levels provide the best information about severity and prognosis... - Has the "Equal Environments" assumption been tested in twin studies?Lindon Eaves
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0003, USA
Twin Res 6:486-9. 2003..The stratification approach to testing the equal environments assumption may be misleading and the results of such tests may actually be consistent with a simpler theory of the role of genetic factors in niche selection... - Genetic and environmental influences on the relative timing of pubertal changeLindon Eaves
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0003, USA
Twin Res 7:471-81. 2004..0+/-3.6% in boys. Shared environmental influences account for 3.6+/-3.4% in girls and 0% in boys. In girls, nonshared environmental effects explain 0.1+/-0.1% of the total residual variance. The comparable figure in boys is 12.0+/-3.6%... - Informant disagreement for separation anxiety disorderDebra Foley
Human Genetics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298 0003, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:452-60. 2004..To characterize informant disagreement for separation anxiety disorder (SAD)... - Resolving multiple epigenetic pathways to adolescent depressionLindon Eaves
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond 23298-0003, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:1006-14. 2003..Additional genetic effects, specific to depression, further increase sensitivity to adversity. Failure to take into account the effects of G x E and rGE will lead to misunderstanding how genes and environment affect complex behavior... 
Tolerance for ambiguity could influence awareness of breast cancer genetic testing and inform health educationJohn M Quillin
Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0033, USA
Cancer Causes Control 19:1227-32. 2008..This exploratory study assessed relationships among education, tolerance for ambiguity, and genetic testing awareness in light of implications for cancer genetics education...- Childhood adversity, monoamine oxidase a genotype, and risk for conduct disorderDebra L Foley
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virgoinia Commonwaelth University, Richmond, 23298 0003, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 61:738-44. 2004..Very little is known about how different sets of risk factors interact to influence risk for psychiatric disorder... - Bulimic symptoms in the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development: correlates, comorbidity, and geneticsRichard Rowe
Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Center, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Biol Psychiatry 51:172-82. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: The pattern of comorbidity suggests overlap between bulimia symptoms and those of internalizing disorders. Substantial genetic variance (44%) was evident in the most conservative model... - Genetic and cultural transmission of antisocial behavior: an extended twin parent modelHermine H Maes
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0003, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 10:136-50. 2007..This study showed significant heritability, which is slightly increased by assortative mating, and significant effects of primarily nonparental shared environment on CD... - Assessment of the within-family environment in twins: absolute versus differential ratings, and relationship with conduct problemsRene Carbonneau
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 43:1064-74. 2002..The aim was to compare the psychometric properties of absolute versus differential ratings of the within-family environments and to examine their associations with conduct problems in 8-16-year-old twins... - Psychopathology, temperament and unintentional injury: cross-sectional and longitudinal relationshipsRichard Rowe
King s College London, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:71-9. 2007..We present further evidence of these associations and address the underlying mechanisms. We also examine the genetic contribution to unintentional injury... - The developmental association between eating disorders symptoms and symptoms of depression and anxiety in juvenile twin girlsJudy L Silberg
Department of Human Genetics and Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 46:1317-26. 2005.... - Course and short-term outcomes of separation anxiety disorder in a community sample of twinsDebra L Foley
Human Genetics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298 0003, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:1107-14. 2004..To assess the course and short-term outcomes associated with separation anxiety disorder (SAD) in a community setting... - Familial influences on alcohol use in adolescent female twins: testing for genetic and environmental interactionsDonna R Miles
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, P O Box 980003, 800 East Leigh St, Biotech One, Suite 100, Richmond, Virginia, 23298 0003, USA
J Stud Alcohol 66:445-51. 2005..The present study examined whether measures of family adaptability and cohesion may moderate the genetic influence on risk for alcohol use among female adolescents... - Modulation of gene expression by genetic and environmental heterogeneity in timing of a developmental milestoneLindon J Eaves
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia 23298-0003, USA
Behav Genet 33:1-6. 2003..The impact of these effects on age patterns in twin correlations is examined and their relevance to current data on developmental change discussed briefly... - Revisiting the children of twins: can they be used to resolve the environmental effects of dyadic parental treatment on child behavior?Lindon J Eaves
Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 8:283-90. 2005..The fact that many candidate environments, such as parental divorce, are dyadic gives reason to question the interpretation of their correlations with behavior in the children of twins... - Parent-child feedback predicts sibling contrast: using twin studies to test theories of parent-offspring interaction in infant behaviorLindon J Eaves
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 8:1-4. 2005.... - Risks for conduct disorder symptoms associated with parental alcoholism in stepfather families versus intact families from a community sampleDebra L Foley
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:687-96. 2004.... - Maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk to boys' conduct disturbance: an examination of the causal hypothesisJudy L Silberg
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298-0003, USA
Biol Psychiatry 53:130-5. 2003..Our results challenge previous findings of a direct effect of prenatal smoke exposure on risk to Cd once other etiologic factors are considered...