Genetics
Lubke, McArtor, Boomsma, & Bartels (2018) analyzed a sample of 21,565 girls and 21,262 boys aged 3-16 years from 21, 608 families in the Netherlands Twin Register to explore environmental and genetic contributions to child aggression. They used auto-regressive models to evaluate whether the same genes are enmeshed as children grow up. The researchers specifically compared two different simplex models to separate hypothetically changing behavioral patterns from changes in environmental and genetic effects. One model gave estimates of environmental and genetic effects at the individual aggression level while the second model weighed the effects at the sum score aggression level. The study was conducted through sound methodology to safeguard credibility and produce evidence-based results.
The study findings revealed that obvious and more physical phases of childhood aggression are highly genetic between the ages 3 and 16. They also showed that childhood aggression is mainly affected by the same genes throughout childhood. This stability was evident at the level of individual items as well as that of SS, a critical finding that earlier researchers had reached (Porsch et al., 2016). Additionally, the results showed a differential heritability of different markers of aggression as measured with the childhood Behavior Checklist, with the destruction of property disclosing a high genetic component in childhood and hostile behaviors showing higher prevalence in adolescent years. These findings facilitate a better comprehension of childhood aggression.
Lubke, McArtor, Boomsma, & Bartels’ (2018) work is not only peer-reviewed but also published in a scientifically credible journal- The journal of Developmental psychology. The authors are affiliated with University of Notre Dame and VU University Amsterdam which are established higher institutions of learning with satisfactory academic reputation. They have also participated in other research studies in the field of genetics and psychology Lubke, G., & (McArtor, 2014a; Lubke & McArtor, 2014b; Luningham, Mcartor, Bartels, Boomsma, & Lubke, 2017). What is more, the article is timely and appropriate in the field of genetics as it utilizes recent data to analyze genetic heredity while at the same time using a considerably large sample. Above all, the source has a significantly rich bibliography.
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References
Lubke, G. H., McArtor, D. B., Boomsma, D. I., & Bartels, M. (2018). Genetic and environmental contributions to the development of childhood aggression. Developmental psychology, 54(1), 39.
Lubke, G., & McArtor, D. (2014 a, November). Genetic analyses of heterogeneous phenotypes with COSA-MDMR. In BEHAVIOR GENETICS (Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 669-669). 233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA: SPRINGER.
Lubke, G., & McArtor, D. (2014 b). Multivariate genetic analyses in heterogeneous populations. Behavior genetics, 44(3), 232-239.
Luningham, J., Mcartor, D., Bartels, M., Boomsma, D., & Lubke, G. (2017, November). Data integration for improved psychometric phenotypes in gene association tests. In BEHAVIOR GENETICS (Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 708-708). 233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA: SPRINGER.Porsch, R. M., Middeldorp, C. M., Cherny, S. S., Krapohl, E., Van Beijsterveldt, C. E., Loukola, A. … & Kaprio, J. (2016). Longitudinal heritability of childhood aggression. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 171(5), 697-707.
