The correlation between reading and mathematics ability at age twelve has a substantial genetic component
| dc.contributor.author | CORVIN, AIDEN | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-02T10:35:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-12-02T10:35:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | 2014 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Davis, O.S.P. Band, G. Pirinen, M. Haworth, C.M.A. Meaburn, E.L. Kovas, Y. Harlaar, N. Docherty, S.J. Hanscombe, K.B. Trzaskowski, M. Curtis, C.J.C. Strange, A. Freeman, C. Bellenguez, C. Su, Z. Pearson, R. Vukcevic, D. Langford, C. Deloukas, P. Hunt, S. Gray, E. Dronov, S. Potter, S.C. Tashakkori-Ghanbaria, A. Edkins, S. Bumpstead, S.J. Blackwell, J.M. Bramon, E. Brown, M.A. Casas, J.P. Corvin, A. Duncanson, A. Jankowski, J.A.Z. Markus, H.S. Mathew, C.G. Palmer, C.N.A. Rautanen, A. Sawcer, S.J. Trembath, R.C. Viswanathan, A.C. Wood, N.W. Barroso, I. Peltonen, L. Dale, P.S. Petrill, S.A. Schalkwyk, L.S. Craig, I.W. Lewis, C.M. Price, T.S. Donnelly, P. Plomin, R. Spencer, C.C.A., The correlation between reading and mathematics ability at age twelve has a substantial genetic component, Nature Communications, 5, 2014, 4204- | en |
| dc.identifier.other | Y | en |
| dc.description | PUBLISHED | en |
| dc.description | Cited By :1 Export Date: 3 March 2015 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Dissecting how genetic and environmental influences impact on learning is helpful for maximizing numeracy and literacy. Here we show, using twin and genome-wide analysis, that there is a substantial genetic component to children’s ability in reading and mathematics, and estimate that around one half of the observed correlation in these traits is due to shared genetic effects (so-called Generalist Genes). Thus, our results highlight the potential role of the learning environment in contributing to differences in a child’s cognitive abilities at age twelve | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Acknowledgements Funding for this study was provided by the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 project (085475/B/08/Z and 085475/Z/08/Z) and TEDS is supported by a program grant from the UK Medical Research Council (G0901245). The UK Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust (Grant ref: 092731) and the University of Bristol provide core support for ALSPAC. O.S.P. Davis was supported by a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (WT088984). M. Pirinen is supported by the Academy of Finland (257654). C.M.A. Haworth was supported by a research fellowship from the British Academy. R. Plomin was supported by a research professorship from the UK Medical Research Council (G19/2) and a European Research Council Advanced Inves- tigator Award (295366). P. Donnelly was supported in part by a Wolfson-Royal Society Merit Award. C.C.A. Spencer was supported by a Wellcome Trust Fellowship [097364/Z/ 11/Z], and work was supported in part by Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics core grants 090532/Z/09/Z and 075491/Z/04/B. We acknowledge use of the British 1958 Birth Cohort DNA collection funded by the Medical Research Council (grant G0000934) and the Wellcome Trust (grant 068545/Z/02), and the UK National Blood Service controls funded by the Wellcome Trust. E Bramon holds a Medical Research Council new investigator award. We also thank the National Institutes of Health Research Bio- medical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King’s College London | en |
| dc.format.extent | 4204 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Nature Communications | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 5 | en |
| dc.rights | Y | en |
| dc.subject | numeracy and literacy | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | numeracy and literacy | en |
| dc.title | The correlation between reading and mathematics ability at age twelve has a substantial genetic component | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
| dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/acorvin | en |
| dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 101440 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5204 | en |
| dc.rights.ecaccessrights | openAccess | |
| dc.identifier.rssuri | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903977557&partnerID=40&md5=11efee1e9f8c8b6241e7d4cb16bb43b9 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/75011 |
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