The heritability of general cognitive ability: A within-family adoption design

Intelligence

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 403-409

  Petrill, Stephen A ^a,c   Deater Deckard, Kirby ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c Center for Developmental and Health Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; General cognitive ability; Genetic influences; Parent offspring correlations

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MOTHER; PARENT; PREDICTION;

EID: 4344637505     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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