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SUBMITTER: Figlio DN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5754768 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Figlio David N DN Freese Jeremy J Karbownik Krzysztof K Roth Jeffrey J
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20171113 51
Accurate understanding of environmental moderation of genetic influences is vital to advancing the science of cognitive development as well as for designing interventions. One widely reported idea is increasing genetic influence on cognition for children raised in higher socioeconomic status (SES) families, including recent proposals that the pattern is a particularly US phenomenon. We used matched birth and school records from Florida siblings and twins born in 1994-2002 to provide the largest, ...[more]