A twin study on intelligence and processing speed heritability of children and adolescent / 中华医学遗传学杂志
Chinese Journal of Medical Genetics
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(6): 326-330, 2009.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-287397
ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the effects of the genetic and environmental factors on intelligence of children and adolescent from the Southwest China Prospective Twin Registry (SCPT).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The intelligence was investigated by using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (C-WISC) in 333 twin pairs aged 6-16 years. The effects of genetic and environmental factors on IQ were analyzed by using structural equation modeling (SEM) and correlation analysis method. The effects in different sex and age groups in this population were also investigated.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Genetic influence accounted for 0.43 of total IQ variance and 0.37 of verbal IQ in 6-16 years old children and adolescent, but there was no significant genetic effect on performance IQ. The heritability of children aged 10-16 years was higher than that of those aged 6-10 years (total IQ 0.82 vs 0.00, verbal IQ 0.80 vs 0.00, performance IQ0.51 vs 0.00). In males the heritability of verbal IQ (0.47) was higher than that in females (0.05). The shared environmental influences accounted fo r the majority of variance of performance IQ in both males and females.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>There is moderate heritability on the total IQ and verbal IQ, while shared environmental factors played important roles on the variance of performance IQ. The heritability of IQ, verbal IQ and performance IQ are higher in older children and adolescent than that in younger children.</p>
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Main subject:
Physiology
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Psychomotor Performance
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Reaction Time
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Twins
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Wechsler Scales
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Child Development
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Sex Factors
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Age Factors
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Sex Characteristics
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Environment
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Medical Genetics
Year:
2009
Type:
Article
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