Family environment and the malleability of cognitive ability a Swedish national home-reared and adopted-away cosibling control study

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 4612-4617

  Kendler, Kenneth S ^a,b,c   EricTurkheimer, ^d   Ohlsson, Henrik ^e   Sundquist, Jan ^e,f   Sundquist, Kristina ^e,f  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Cognitive ability; Cosibling control; Environment; Rearing

Indexed keywords

ADOPTED CHILD; ADOPTION; ADOPTIVE PARENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD REARING; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FAMILY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; INTELLIGENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SWEDEN;

ADOPTION; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SWEDEN;

EID: 84928152357     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1417106112     Document Type: Article

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