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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Language Ability in Older Adults: Findings from the Older Australian Twins Study.

Behavior genetics - 1 May 2018

Lee T, Thalamuthu A, Henry J D, Trollor J N, Ames D, Wright M J, Sachdev P S

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We used a sub-sample from the Older Australian Twins Study to estimate the heritability of performance on three tests of language ability: Boston Naming Test (BNT), Letter/Phonemic Fluency (FAS) and Category/Semantic Fluency (CFT) Tests. After adjusting for age, sex, education, mood, and global cognition (GC), heritability estimates obtained for the three tests were 0.35, 0.59, and 0.20, respectively....

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PMID: 29619677
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-018-9897-z

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