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PMID
10480744
TITLE
Frequency of church attendance in Australia and the United States: models of family resemblance.
ABSTRACT
Data on frequency of church attendance have been obtained from separate cohorts of twins and their families from the USA and Australia (29,063 and 20,714 individuals from 5670 and 5615 families, respectively). The United States sample displayed considerably higher frequency of attendance at church services. Sources of family resemblance for this trait also differed between the Australian and US data, but both indicated significant additive genetic and shared environment effects on church attendance, with minor contributions from twin environment, assortative mating and parent-offspring environmental transmission. Principal differences between the populations were in greater maternal environmental effects in the US sample, as opposed to paternal effects in the Australian sample, and smaller shared environment effects observed for both women and men in the US cohort.
DATE PUBLISHED
1999 Jun
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1999/09/10
medline 1999/09/10 00:01
entrez 1999/09/10 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Kirk KM Kirk K M KM Queensland Institute of Medical Research and Joint Genetics Program, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. kathE@qimr.edu.au
Maes HH Maes H H HH
Neale MC Neale M C MC
Heath AC Heath A C AC
Martin NG Martin N G NG
Eaves LJ Eaves L J LJ
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 2
ISSUE: 2
TITLE: Twin research : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies
ISOABBREVIATION: Twin Res
YEAR: 1999
MONTH: Jun
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 1369-0523
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Twin Res
COUNTRY: Australia
ISSNLINKING: 1369-0523
NLMUNIQUEID: 9815819
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
AA06781 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA07535 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA07728 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Attitude
Australia
Cohort Studies
Environment
Family
Father-Child Relations
Female
Genetics, Behavioral
Humans
Least-Squares Analysis
Likelihood Functions
Male
Middle Aged
Mother-Child Relations
Religion
Sex Factors
Sexual Behavior
Twins genetics
Twins, Dizygotic genetics
Twins, Monozygotic genetics
United States genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's