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Genetic and cultural transmission of antisocial behavior: An extended twin parent model

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Maes, Hermine H., Silberg, Judy L., Neale, Michael C., Eaves, Lindon J.·2007·Twin Research and Human Genetics
DOI 10.1375/twin.10.1.136
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Considerable evidence from twin and adoption studies indicates that both genetic and shared environmental factors play a substantial role in the liability to antisocial behavior. Although twin and adoption designs can resolve genetic and environmental influences, they do not provide information about assortative mating, parent-offspring transmission, or the contribution of these factors to trait variation. We examined the role of genetic and environmental factors for conduct disorder (CD) using a twin-parent design. This design allows the simultaneous estimation of additive genetic, shared and individual-specific environmental effects, as well as sex differences in the expression of genes and environment in the presence of assortative mating and combined genetic and cultural transmission. A retrospective measure of CD was obtained from twins and their parents or guardians in the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavior Development and its Young Adult Follow up sample. Both genetic and environmental factors play a significant role in the liability to CD. Major influences on individual differences appeared to be additive genetic (38%-40%) and unique environmental (39%-42%) effects, with smaller contributions from the shared environment (18%-23%), assortative mating (-2%), cultural transmission (approximately 2%) and resulting genotype-environment covariance. This study showed significant heritability, which is slightly increased by assortative mating, and significant effects of primarily nonparental shared environment on CD.

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  • The random mating assumption is probably violated for antisocial and aggressive behavior, as significant spouse correlations have been found in this domain.

    “This assumption is probably violated when it comes to antisocial and aggressive behavior, as significant spouse correlations have been found suggesting that assortative mating exists in this behavioral domain (Krueger et al., 1998; Maes et al., 2007; Taylor et al., 2000).”

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Authors
Maes, H. H., Silberg, J. L., Neale, M. C., & Eaves, L. J.
Affiliations
Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
Corresponding author
Maes, Hermine H.
ORCID
Venue
Twin Research and Human Genetics
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2007-02-01
Volume
10
Issue
1
Pages
136-150
ISSN
  • 1832-4274 (ISSN-L)
  • 1839-2628
DOI
10.1375/twin.10.1.136
OpenAlex
W2057120172
Cited by
76
References
61
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 41 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 4
FWCI
3.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 1846 d)
Locations
  • Twin Research and Human Genetics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • John Templeton Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health (DA‐018673, MH55557)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH068521, MH068521, MH57761, R29MH055557, MH45268, R01MH045268, MH-55557, P30MH057761)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA-018673, DA-016977, R01DA016977)
  • National Cancer Institute (CA93423)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
Keywords
antisocial behavior, conduct disorder, heritability, genetic transmission, cultural transmission, assortative mating, parent-offspring transmission, shared environment, nonshared environment, sex differences
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Adult, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Child, Cultural Characteristics, Environment, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Models, Genetic, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Socioeconomic Factors, Twins, Dizygotic, Twins, Monozygotic, Virginia, Twin Studies as Topic, Conduct Disorder

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