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Title: | Multivariate Genetic Analyses of Cognition and Academic Achievement from Two Population Samples of 174,000 and 166,000 School Children | Contributor(s): | Calvin, Catherine M (author); Deary, Ian J (author); Webbink, Dinand (author); Smith, Pauline (author); Fernandes, Cres (author); Lee, Sang Hong (author); Luciano, Michelle (author); Visscher, Peter M (author) | Publication Date: | 2012 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10519-012-9549-7 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22041 | Abstract: | The genetic influence on the association between contemporaneously measured intelligence and academic achievement in childhood was examined in nationally representative cohorts from England and The Netherlands using a whole population indirect twin design, including singleton data. We identified 1,056 same-sex (SS) and 495 opposite-sex (OS) twin pairs among 174,098 British 11 year-olds with test scores from 2004, and, 785 SS and 327 OS twin pairs among 120,995 Dutch schoolchildren, aged 8, 10 or 12 years, with assessments from 1994 to 2002. The estimate of intelligence heritability was large in both cohorts, consistent with previous studies (h2 = 0.70 ± 0.14, England; h2 = 0.43 ± 0.28-0.67 ± 0.31, The Netherlands), as was the heritability of academic achievement variables (h2 = 0.51 ± 0.16-0.81 ± 0.16, England; h2 = 0.36 ± 0.27–0.74 ± 0.27, The Netherlands). Additive genetic covariance explained the large majority of the phenotypic correlations between intelligence and academic achievement scores in England, when standardised to a bivariate heritability (Biv h2 = 0.76 ± 0.15-0.88 ± 0.16), and less consistent but often large proportions of the phenotypic correlations in The Netherlands (Biv h2 = 0.33 ± 0.52-1.00 ± 0.43). In the British cohort both nonverbal and verbal reasoning showed very high additive genetic covariance with achievement scores (Biv h2 = 0.94-0.98; Biv h2 = 0.77-1.00 respectively). In The Netherlands, covariance estimates were consistent across age groups. The heritability of intelligence-academic achievement associations in two population cohorts of elementary schoolchildren, using a twin pair extraction method, is at the high end of estimates reported by studies of largely preselected twin samples. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Behavior Genetics, 42(5), p. 699-710 | Publisher: | Springer New York LLC | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1573-3297 0001-8244 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170102 Developmental Psychology and Ageing | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 520101 Child and adolescent development 520106 Psychology of ageing |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 920410 Mental Health | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 200409 Mental health | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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