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Genetic transmission of reading ability
Suzanne C. Swagerman,Elsje van Bergen,Elsje van Bergen,Conor V. Dolan,Eco J. C. de Geus,Eco J. C. de Geus,Marinka M.G. Koenis,Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol,Dorret I. Boomsma +8 more
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It is concluded that parents and offspring tend to resemble each other for genetic reasons, and not due to cultural transmission, which is mainly caused by additive and non‐additive genetic factors.About:
This article is published in Brain and Language.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 43 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Assortative mating & Cultural transmission in animals.read more
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Why are home-literacy environment and children’s reading skills associated? What parental skills reveal
TL;DR: The authors used data from 101 mother/father/child triads to consider the extent to which associations between home literacy and children's reading fluency could be accounted for by parental reading ability.
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The Nature of Nurture: Using a Virtual-Parent Design to Test Parenting Effects on Children's Educational Attainment in Genotyped Families.
Timothy C. Bates,Brion S. Maher,Sarah E. Medland,Kerrie McAloney,Margaret J. Wright,Narelle K. Hansell,Kenneth S. Kendler,Nicholas G. Martin,Nathan A. Gillespie +8 more
TL;DR: The virtual-parent method may be applied to clarify causality in other phenotypes where observational evidence suggests parenting may moderate expression of other outcomes, for instance in psychiatry.
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Nurture might be nature: cautionary tales and proposed solutions.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a synopsis of numerous methods to estimate the direct effect of the environment, controlling for the potential of genetic confounding, and plead with their colleagues to clearly mention genetic confound as a limitation, and to be cautious with any environmental causal statements which could lead to unnecessary parent blaming.
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Why do boys and girls perform differently on PISA Reading in Finland? The effects of reading fluency, achievement behaviour, leisure reading and homework activity
TL;DR: This article examined whether the gender gap in PISA reading performance can be understood via the effects of reading fluency, achievement behaviour (mastery orientation and task-avoidant behaviour) or the amount of time spent with leisure reading and homework.
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Intergenerational Transmission of Education and ADHD: Effects of Parental Genotypes.
Eveline L. de Zeeuw,Eveline L. de Zeeuw,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Klaasjan G. Ouwens,Conor V. Dolan,Erik A. Ehli,Gareth E. Davies,Dorret I. Boomsma,Dorret I. Boomsma,Elsje van Bergen,Elsje van Bergen +10 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the associations between parent characteristics and offspring outcomes in childhood are mainly to be attributable to the effects of genes that are shared by parents and children.
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Introduction to quantitative genetics
TL;DR: The genetic constitution of a population: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and changes in gene frequency: migration mutation, changes of variance, and heritability are studied.
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Foundation literacy acquisition in European orthographies
TL;DR: It is argued that fundamental linguistic differences in syllabic complexity and orthographic depth are responsible for the development of basic decoding skills in English and that children from a majority of European countries become accurate and fluent in foundation level reading before the end of the first school year.
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OpenMx: An Open Source Extended Structural Equation Modeling Framework
Steven M. Boker,Michael C. Neale,Hermine H. Maes,Michael Wilde,Michael Spiegel,Timothy R. Brick,Jeffrey R. Spies,Ryne Estabrook,Sarah Kenny,Timothy C. Bates,Paras D. Mehta,John Fox +11 more
TL;DR: The OpenMx data structures are introduced—these novel structures define the user interface framework and provide new opportunities for model specification and a discussion of directions for future development.
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Genetic influences on measures of the environment: a systematic review.
TL;DR: Genetic influences on measures of the environment are pervasive in extent and modest to moderate in impact, and largely reflect ‘actual behavior’ rather than ‘only perceptions’.
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