Genetic and Environmental Mediation of the Relationship between Language and Nonverbal Impairment in 4-Year-Old Twins

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1271-1282

  Viding, Essi ^a   Price, Thomas S ^a,d   Spinath, Frank M ^a,e   Bishop, Dorothy V M ^b   Dale, Philip S ^c   Plomin, Robert ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genetic; Language impairment; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NONVERBAL IMPAIRMENT; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TWINS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0348216607     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/099)     Document Type: Article

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