Heritability of specific language impairment depends on diagnostic criteria

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 365-372

  Bishop, D V M ^a   Hayiou Thomas, M E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Etiology; Heritability; Specific language impairment; Speech; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MASS SCREENING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER; TWINS;

AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH DISORDERS;

EID: 41749120529     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2007.00360.x     Document Type: Article

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