Genetic covariance structure of reading, intelligence and memory in children

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 245-254

  Van Leeuwen, Marieke ^a   Van Den Berg, Stéphanie M ^b   Peper, Jiska S ^c   Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^c   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Intelligence; Pre adolescence; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISEASES IN TWINS; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 67349178120     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-009-9264-1     Document Type: Article

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