Heritability across the distribution: An application of quantile regression

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 256-267

  Logan, Jessica A R ^a,b   Petrill, Stephen A ^a   Hart, Sara A ^c   Schatschneider, Christopher ^c   Thompson, Lee A ^d   Deater Deckard, Kirby ^e   De Thorne, Laura S ^f   Bartlett, Christopher ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Office A328   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential heritability; Differential shared environment; Quantile regression; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CHERNY METHOD; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SHARED ENVIRONMENT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHONETICS; QUANTILE REGRESSION METHOD; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ZYGOSITY;

CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84860683127     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-011-9497-7     Document Type: Article

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