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Generalist genes and the Internet generation: etiology of learning abilities by web testing at age 10.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Jun 2008
Davis O S P, Kovas Y, Harlaar N, Busfield P, McMillan A, Frances J, Petrill S A, Dale P S, Plomin R
Abstract excerpt
A key translational issue for neuroscience is to understand how genes affect individual differences in brain function. Although it is reasonable to suppose that genetic effects on specific learning abilities, such as reading and mathematics, as well as general cognitive ability (g), will overlap very little, the counterintuitive finding emerging from multivariate genetic studies is that the same genes affect...
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