Genetic and environmental sources of covariance between reading tests used in neuropsychological assessment and IQ subtests

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 365-376

  Wainwright, Mark ^a,b,c   Wright, Margaret J ^a   Geffen, Gina M ^b   Geffen, Laurie B ^b   Luciano, Michelle ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heritability; Intelligence; Neuropsychology; Reading; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; READING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MEDICAL GENETICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 3142700216     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BEGE.0000023642.34853.cb     Document Type: Article

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