Table 2 Associations between microsatellite variants and measures of child behaviour, cognitive ability, personality/self-esteem and mental health (European sample only). The AP-2β minisatellite showed no significant association so was excluded from the table
|  | AR-GGN homozygous major vs rest | AP-2β-CAAA homozygous major vs rest | TBR1 homozygous major vs rest | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Measure | r | p | r | p | r | p |
Childhood behaviour (7–9 years) | (N = 454–459) | (N = 582–589) | (N = 563–570) | |||
Conduct problems | 0.056 | 0.23 | −0.055 | 0.18 | 0.141 | 0.0007** |
Attention problems | 0.049 | 0.29 | −0.061 | 0.14 | 0.045 | 0.29 |
Anxiety/withdrawal | 0.019 | 0.68 | −0.039 | 0.34 | 0.103 | 0.015* |
Cognitive abilitya | (N = 348–371) | (N = 451–482) | (N = 442–468) | |||
WISC-R IQ (8–9 years) | −0.104 | 0.046* | 0.085 | 0.062 | −0.015 | 0.75 |
Scholastic ability (13 years) | −0.083 | 0.12 | 0.136 | 0.004* | −0.042 | 0.38 |
Personality/self-esteem | (N = 428–433) | (N = 554–557) | (N = 542–544) | |||
EPI neuroticism (14 years) | 0.039 | 0.41 | −0.006 | 0.88 | 0.068 | 0.11 |
EPI extroversion (14 years) | −0.040 | 0.41 | −0.072 | 0.08 | 0.061 | 0.16 |
TPI novelty seeking (16 years) | 0.017 | 0.72 | −0.045 | 0.29 | 0.034 | 0.43 |
Self-esteem (15 years) | −0.077 | 0.11 | 0.011 | 0.79 | −0.051 | 0.23 |
Mental health (SCL-90, 18 years) | (N = 453) | (N = 588) | (N = 568) | |||
Somatisation | 0.060 | 0.15 | −0.024 | 0.56 | 0.011 | 0.80 |
Anxiety | 0.096 | 0.040* | 0.020 | 0.63 | 0.022 | 0.60 |
Phobic anxiety | 0.078 | 0.10 | 0.036 | 0.38 | −0.022 | 0.61 |
Obsessive compulsive | 0.037 | 0.44 | −0.042 | 0.31 | 0.036 | 0.39 |
Depression | 0.037 | 0.43 | −0.009 | 0.83 | 0.037 | 0.38 |
Interpersonal sensitivity | 0.060 | 0.21 | 0.012 | 0.78 | 0.054 | 0.20 |
Psychoticism | 0.061 | 0.19 | −0.110 | 0.008* | 0.001 | 0.97 |
Paranoid ideation | 0.081 | 0.086 | −0.064 | 0.12 | 0.046 | 0.28 |
Hostility | −0.024 | 0.60 | −0.028 | 0.49 | 0.087 | 0.039* |