Familial aggregation of spelling disability

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 817-822

  Schulte Körne, Gerd ^a   Deimel, Wolfgang ^a   Müller, Katarina ^a   Gutenbrunner, Cornelius ^a   Remschmidt, Helmut ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnostic criteria; Familial aggregation; Polygenic threshold model; Spelling disability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DYSLEXIA; FAMILY HISTORY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; SIBLING;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENTS; PEDIGREE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0029987489     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01477.x     Document Type: Article

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