Learning abilities and disabilities: Generalist genes, specialist environments

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 284-288

  Kovas, Yulia ^a   Plomin, Robert ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disabilities; Genetics; Mathematics; Multivariate; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748843473     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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