ArticleDevelopmental psychology2017
The genetic architecture of oral language, reading fluency, and reading comprehension: A twin study from 7 to 16 years.
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- Longitudinal Study of Language of Twins at Ages 9 and 14 Years: Twinning, Zygosity, and Heritability.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026Article
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- Dyslexia-related loci are significantly associated with language and literacy in Chinese-English bilingual Hong Kong Chinese twins.Human genetics · 2023Article
- A genome-wide association study identifies a new variant associated with word reading fluency in Chinese children.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2023Article
- Nine Levels of Explanation : A Proposed Expansion of Tinbergen's Four-Level Framework for Understanding the Causes of Behavior.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Multivariate genome-wide covariance analyses of literacy, language and working memory skills reveal distinct etiologies.NPJ science of learning · 2021Article
- Identification of Phonology-Related Genes and Functional Characterization of Broca's and Wernicke's Regions in Language and Learning Disorders.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Early classroom reading gains moderate shared environmental influences on reading comprehension in adolescence.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2020Article
- Cognitive ability and education: How behavioural genetic research has advanced our knowledge and understanding of their association.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Review
- Shared Storybook Reading and Oral Language Development: A Bioecological Perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
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This study examines the genetic and environmental etiology underlying the development of oral language and reading skills, and the relationship between them, over a long period of developmental time spanning middle childhood and adolescence. It focuses particularly on the differential relationship between language and two different aspects of reading: reading fluency and reading comprehension. Structural equation models were applied to language and reading data at 7, 12, and 16 years from the large-scale TEDS twin study. A series of multivariate twin models show a clear patterning of oral language with reading comprehension, as distinct from reading fluency: significant but moderate genetic overlap between oral language and reading fluency (genetic correlation r
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