Genetic and environmental influence on language impairment in 4-year-old same-sex and opposite-sex twins

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 315-325

  Viding, Essi ^a   Spinath, Frank M ^a   Price, Thomas S ^a   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)

Author keywords

Behavioural genetics; Language; Language impairment; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; TWINS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 1242321354     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00223.x     Document Type: Article

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