DNA evidence for strong genetic stability and increasing heritability of intelligence from age 7 to 12

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 380-384

  Trzaskowski, M ^a   Yang, J ^b   Visscher, P M ^b   Plomin, R ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Genome wide complex trait analysis (GCTA); Intelligence; Twins

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DNA MARKER; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MCCARTHY SCALES OF CHILDREN'S ABILITIES; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

AGING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TWINS;

EID: 84894540542     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2012.191     Document Type: Article

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