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Twin Differentiation of Cognitive Ability Through Phenotype to Environment Transmission: The Louisville Twin Study.
Behavior genetics - 1 Nov 2015
Beam Christopher R, Turkheimer Eric, Dickens William T, Davis Deborah Winders
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The Louisville Twin Study is one of the most intensive twin studies of cognitive ability. The repeated measurements of the twins are ideal for testing developmental twin models that allow for the accumulation of gene-environment correlation via a (P⇒E) transmission process to explain twins' divergence in mean ability level over time. Using full-scale IQ scores from 566 pairs of twins (MZ = 278; DZ = 288), we...
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