Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Origins studies
- Family studies
- diffs between relatives in their genetic similarities
- family members share environments
- difficult to seperate effects of genes from those of shared environment
- Adoption studies
- adopted children compared with biological & adoptive parents
- similarity between bio parent used to assess contribution of genes
- similarity between child & adoptive parent to assess contribution of environment
- Twin studies
- concordance for particular characteristics between MZ & DZ twins
- MZ share 100% genes, MZ about 50%
- if gene important MZ twins should show greater concordance than DZ
- Reitveld et al- 75% heritability for over activity & attention problems
- correlation analysis of concordance rates
- Rates for schizophrenia 4x higher for MZ than DZ suggesting even complex mental disorders highly heritable
- heritability is % of observed diffs within a particular population at a particular time which can be explained by genetic diffs
- heritability refers to groups not individuals
- does not say the extent to which a particular characteristic may be modifiable
- it changes across lifespan, correlations for cog ability between parents & kids increase as child ages