Differences in heritability across groups differing in ability.

doi:10.1007/BF01065564

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Differences in heritability across groups differing in ability.

Behavior genetics - 1 May 1990

Detterman D K, Thompson L A, Plomin R

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Differences in heritability and environmentality were assessed for 54 DZ and 86 MZ same-sex twin pairs between 6 and 12 years of age from the Western Reserve Twin Project. A principal-component score composed of the subtests of the WISC-R, PPVT, WRAT, and MAT represented each twin's cognitive abi...

Topics

Achievement
Aptitude
Child
Female
Humans
Intelligence
Male
Phenotype
Social Environment
Twins
Twins, Dizygotic
Twins, Monozygotic

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