DIFFERENTIAL HERITABILITY ACROSS LEVELS OF COGNITIVE-ABILITY

被引:62
作者
CHERNY, SS
CARDON, LR
FULKER, DW
DEFRIES, JC
机构
[1] Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, 80309-0447, Colorado
关键词
DIFFERENTIAL HERITABILITY; DIFFERENTIAL SHARED ENVIRONMENTALITY; COGNITIVE ABILITY; TWINS;
D O I
10.1007/BF01066994
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Differences in heritability and shared environmentality across levels of cognitive ability were assessed in a sample of 264 twin pairs tested at 1 year of age and in subsets tested at 2 and 3 years. Using an extension of the DF multiple regression methodology for analyzing twin data, no evidence was found for a linear or quadratic effect of level of cognitive ability on estimates of heritability or shared environmentality.
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页码:153 / 162
页数:10
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