A twin and adoption study of reading achievement: Exploration of shared-environmental and gene-environment-interaction effects

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 368-375

  Kirkpatrick, Robert M ^a   Legrand, Lisa N ^a   Iacono, William G ^a   McGue, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption study; Behavior genetics; Reading achievement; Reading disability; Twin study

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960030528     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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