Heritability of verbal and performance intelligence in a pediatric longitudinal sample

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 119-128

  Van Soelen, Inge L C ^a,b   Brouwer, Rachel M ^b   Van Leeuwen, Marieke ^c   Kahn, René S ^b   Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Childhood; Development; Intelligence quotient (IQ); Longitudinal model; Performance IQ; Verbal IQ

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERFORMANCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS;

EID: 79953112789     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.14.2.119     Document Type: Article

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