Citation

Loehlin JC. Behav. Genet. 2010; 40(4): 447-451.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A8000, Austin, TX, 78712-0187, USA, loehlin@psy.utexas.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10519-010-9347-z

PMID

20213348

Abstract

A scale based on alcohol-related behaviors and an item on shared friends from the National Merit Twin Study were used in an attempt to confirm the finding of Cleveland et al. (1995, J Genet Psychol 166:153-169) of gene-environment correlation in adolescents' drinking behavior, a correlation based on the differential selection of peers. Results from samples of 490 MZ and 336 same-sex DZ pairs were consistent in direction with the hypothesis, although quantitatively modest. This consistency appeared, however, to depend entirely on the female twins in the sample.

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