| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 608 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
[Forewords]. A behavioral genetics perspective / Irving I. Gottesman ; A behavioral science perspective / Jerome Kagan ; A molecular genetics perspective / James D. Watson -- Behavioral genetics / Robert Plomin ... [et al.] -- The role of molecular genetics in the postgenomic era / Ian W. Craig, Joseph McClay -- Recent developments in quantitative trait loci analysis / Pak Sham -- Practical barriers to identifying complex trait loci / Lon R. Cardon -- Assessing genotype-environment interactions and correlations in the postgenomic era / David C. Rowe -- A U.K. population study of lifestyle and genetic influences in common disorders of adult life / Tom Meade ... [et al.] -- Genetic studies of learning and memory in mouse models / Jeanne M. Wehner, Seth A. Balogh -- An integrative neuroscience program linking mouse genes to cognition and disease / Seth G.N. Grant -- Genetic contributions to anatomical, behavioral, and neurophysiological indices of cognition / Daniëlle Posthuma, Eco J.C. de Geus, Dorret I. Boomsma -- Genetic covariance between processing speed and IQ / Michelle Luciano ... [et al.] -- General cognitive ability / Robert Plomin -- Isolation of the genetic factors underlying speech and language disorders / Simon E. Fisher -- Genetic etiology of comorbid reading difficulties and ADHD / Erik G. Willcutt ... [et al.] -- Epistasis and the genetics of complex traits / Elena L. Grigorenko -- The genetics of autistic disorder / Margaret A. Pericak-Vance -- Finding genes for complex behaviors : progress in mouse models of the addictions / John C. Crabbe -- Genetic and environmental risks of dependence on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs / Andrew C. Heath ... [et al.] -- Pharmacogenetics in the postgenomic era / Katherine J. Aitchison, Michael Gill -- Behavioral genetics, genomics, and personality / Richard P. Ebstein, Jonathan Benjamin, Robert H. Belmaker -- Neuroticism and serotonin : a developmental genetic perspective / K. Peter Lesch -- Animal models of anxiety / Jonathan Flint -- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder : new genetic findings, new directions / Anita Thapar -- Schizophrenia and genetics / Michael J. Owen, Michael C. O'Donovan -- The genetics of affective disorders : present and future / Sridevi Kalidindi, Peter McGuffin -- Dementia and genetics / Julie Williams -- Behavioral genomics / Robert Plomin ... [et al.]. |
| Summary |
The goal of this book is to assess the status of genetic research on behavior. The contributors assess progress and promise in both quantitative genetic analysis and molecular genetic analysis of behavior. Particularly significant is a new generation of genetic markers that has made it possible to identify genes for complex quantitative traits. These traits are influenced by multiple genes (QTLs) as well as by multiple environmental factors. The QTL perspective suggests that genetic variation is normal and has implications for thinking about mental illness, which has come to be seen as abnormal extremes of quantitative traits. The book focuses on those aspects of behavior about which behavioral genetics reveals the most. These include cognitive abilities and disabilities, personality, psychopathology, and psychopharmacology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Issued By |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Behavior genetics.
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Genetics, Behavioral.
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Genomics.
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Mental Disorders -- genetics.
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Mental Processes -- physiology.
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| Added Author |
Plomin, Robert, 1948-
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American Psychological Association.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Behavioral genetics in the postgenomic era. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2003 1557989265 (DLC) 2002018681 (OCoLC)49385843 |
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Behavioral genetics in the postgenomic era (print) (DLC) 2002018681 (OCoLC)49385843 |
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