title: Gene-environment interplay in child psychology and psychiatry--challenges and ways forward.
abstract: This special issue in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry presents several invited articles examining gene-environment interplay in child development and psychopathology. Models of gene-environment interplay have been exhaustively discussed in the literature, including an important contribution by Rutter, Moffitt and Caspi (2006) published in this journal.
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Petrill
authors.forename: Christopher W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Bartlett
authors.forename: Clancy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blair
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology*; D012931:Social Environment