Article
Learning abilities and disabilities: generalist genes in early adolescence.
Cognitive neuropsychiatry - 1 Jan 2009
Davis Oliver S P, Haworth Claire M A, Plomin Robert
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: The new view of cognitive neuropsychology that considers not just case studies of rare severe disorders but also common disorders, as well as normal variation and quantitative traits, is more amenable to recent advances in molecular genetics, such as genome-wide association studies, and advances in quantitative genetics, such as multivariate genetic analysis. A surprising finding emerging from...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Child
- Comprehension
- Data Interpretation, Statistical
- Female
- Humans
- Language
- Language Development
- Learning
- Learning Disabilities
- Male
- Mathematics
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Phenotype
- Psycholinguistics
- Psychomotor Performance
- Reading
