Genetic mediation of the correlation between peripheral nerve conduction velocity and IQ.

doi:10.1023/a:1025600423013

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Genetic mediation of the correlation between peripheral nerve conduction velocity and IQ.

Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 1997

Rijsdijk F V, Boomsma D I

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Variation in peripheral nerve conduction velocity (PNCV) and intelligence was studied in 18-year-old Dutch twins. It has been suggested that both brain nerve conduction velocity and PNCV are positively correlated with intelligence (Reed, 1984) and that heritable differences in nerve conduction ve...

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Adolescent
Adult
Female
Genotype
Humans
Intelligence
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Median Nerve
Netherlands
Neural Conduction
Phenotype
Reaction Time
Twins, Dizygotic
Twins, Monozygotic

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