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. 1989 Mar;19(2):195-207.
doi: 10.1007/BF01065904.

Multivariate path analysis of specific cognitive abilities in the Colorado Adoption Project: conditional path model of assortative mating

T Rice, G Carey, D W Fulker, J C DeFries

Multivariate path analysis of specific cognitive abilities in the Colorado Adoption Project: conditional path model of assortative mating

T Rice et al. Behav Genet. 1989 Mar.

Abstract

A multivariate path model of genetic and environmental transmission employing a conditional path representation of assortative mating was fitted to specific cognitive abilities data from the Colorado Adoption Project and evaluated using a maximum-likelihood estimation procedure. In agreement with results obtained from a previous analysis of a smaller data set, significant genetic covariation among the cognitive variables was indicated and evidence for a general genetic factor was found. However, cultural transmission parameters are nonsignificant and environmental correlations among the measures are relatively small.

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