A linkage study of academic skills defined by the Queensland Core Skills Test

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-64

  Wainwright, Mark A ^a,b   Wright, Margaret J ^a   Luciano, Michelle ^a   Montgomery, Grant W ^a   Geffen, Gina M ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Cognitive abilities; Genome wide linkage; Twins

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY STUDY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RATING SCALE; READING; SKILL; VARIANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LOD SCORE; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUEENSLAND; SIBLINGS;

EID: 33645752337     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-005-9013-z     Document Type: Article

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