The heritability of IQ

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6641, 1997, Pages 468-471

  Devlin, B ^a,b   Daniels, Michael ^b   Roeder, Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENT; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; CHILD; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TWINS;

EID: 0030855087     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/41319     Document Type: Article

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