Reconsidering the heritability of intelligence in adulthood: Taking assortative mating and cultural transmission into account

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-198

  Vinkhuyzen, Anna A E ^a,b,c   Van Der Sluis, Sophie ^b   Maes, Hermine H M ^d   Posthuma, Danielle ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Cognitive ability; Genetic dominance; Intelligence; Twin study

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL TRANSMISSION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTENDED FAMILY; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DOMINANCE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL HOMOGAMY;

ADULT; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84860700390     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-011-9507-9     Document Type: Article

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