Genetic influence on language delay in two-year-old children

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 324-328

  Dale, Philip S ^a   Simonoff, Emily ^b   Bishop, Dorothy V M ^c   Eley, Thalia C ^b   Oliver, Bonny ^b   Price, Thomas S ^b   Purcell, Shaun ^b   Stevenson, Jim ^d   Plomin, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TWINS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33644666549     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/1142     Document Type: Article

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