中文摘要：

发展行为遗传学是发展心理学与行为遗传学的交叉学科,旨在探明遗传与环境对人类心理与行为发展是否存在影响,如何产生影响,以及该影响及其作用机制是否随年龄增长而发展变化的问题。该学科与行为遗传学在研究对象、设计和内容等方面存在不同;开展发展行为遗传学研究需要综合运用心理测量法和行为遗传学研究方法;未来研究应拓宽和深化候选基因与行为关联性的考察,并着力探析基因与环境的相互作用机制。

英文摘要：

Developmental behavioural genetics is an interdisciplinary field emerging in 1980s that attempts to explore genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in behavioral development. There are some distinctions in the object, design and content of research between developmental behavioral genetics and behavioral genetics. The research of developmental behavioral genetics should use a combination of psychological measurement and behavioral genetics approaches, which are consisted of quantitative genetics methods and molecular genetics methods. The future research should broaden and deepen the investigation of associations among candidate genes and behavior, and focus on examining the mechanism of gene-environment interaction and gene-environment correlation.