Nature, nurture, and expertise

Intelligence

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 46-59

  Plomin, Robert ^a   Shakeshaft, Nicholas G ^a   McMillan, Andrew ^a   Trzaskowski, Maciej ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genotype environment interaction and correlation; Liability threshold; Non shared environment; Reading; Twins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901189346     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2013.06.008     Document Type: Article

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