DeFries-fulker analysis of longitudinal reading performance data from twin pairs ascertained for reading difficulties and from their nontwin siblings

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 660-667

  Astrom, Raven L ^a   Wadsworth, Sally J ^a   Olson, Richard K ^a   Willcutt, Erik G ^a   DeFries, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

DF analysis; Longitudinal; Reading; Siblings; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFRIES FULKER ANALYSIS; DYSLEXIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SIBLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TWINS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COLORADO; DISEASES IN TWINS; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOLS; TIME FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 80054854597     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-011-9445-6     Document Type: Article

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