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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Verbal Fluency in Middle Age: A Longitudinal Twin Study.
Behavior genetics - 1 Sept 2018
Gustavson Daniel E, Panizzon Matthew S, Elman Jeremy A, Franz Carol E, Beck Asad, Reynolds Chandra A, Jacobson Kristen C, Xian Hong, Toomey Rosemary, Lyons Michael J, Kremen William S
Abstract excerpt
Mounting evidence suggests that measures of phonemic fluency and semantic fluency are differentially associated with other cognitive and health phenotypes, but few studies have examined their shared and unique variance, especially using genetically-informative designs. In this study, 1464 middle-aged twins completed six fluency subtests at up to two time-points (mean age 56 and 62 years). Confirmatory factor...
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