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SUBMITTER: Harlaar N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3974169 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Harlaar Nicole N Meaburn Emma L EL Hayiou-Thomas Marianna E ME Davis Oliver S P OS Docherty Sophia S Hanscombe Ken B KB Haworth Claire M A CM Price Thomas S TS Trzaskowski Maciej M Dale Philip S PS Plomin Robert R
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 20140201 1
<h4>Purpose</h4>Researchers have previously shown that individual differences in measures of receptive language ability at age 12 are highly heritable. In the current study, the authors attempted to identify some of the genes responsible for the heritability of receptive language ability using a genome-wide association approach.<h4>Method</h4>The authors administered 4 Internet-based measures of receptive language (vocabulary, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics) to a sample of 2,329 twelve-year-o ...[more]