An Extended Twin-Pedigree Study of Neuroticism in the Netherlands Twin Register
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An Extended Twin-Pedigree Study of Neuroticism in the Netherlands Twin Register
For the participants in the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) we constructed the extended pedigrees which specify all relations among nuclear and larger twin families in the register. A total of 253,015 subjects from 58,645 families were linked to each other, to the degree that we had information on the relations among participants. We describe the algorithm that was applied to construct the pedi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavior Genetics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0001-8244,1573-3297
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-017-9872-0