The Origins of Diverse Domains of Mathematics: Generalist Genes but Specialist Environments.

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Origins of Diverse Domains of Mathematics

T2 - Generalist Genes but Specialist Environments.

AU - Kovas, Y

AU - Petrill, S A

AU - Plomin, R

PY - 2007/2

Y1 - 2007/2

N2 - The authors assessed 2,502 ten-year-old children, members of 1,251 pairs of twins, on a Web-based battery of problems from 5 diverse aspects of mathematics assessed as part of the U.K. national curriculum. This 1st genetic study into the etiology of variation in different domains of mathematics showed that the heritability estimates were moderate and highly similar across domains and that these genetic influences were mostly general. Environmental factors unique to each twin in a family (rather than shared by the 2 twins) explained most of the remaining variance, and these factors were mostly specific to each domain

AB - The authors assessed 2,502 ten-year-old children, members of 1,251 pairs of twins, on a Web-based battery of problems from 5 diverse aspects of mathematics assessed as part of the U.K. national curriculum. This 1st genetic study into the etiology of variation in different domains of mathematics showed that the heritability estimates were moderate and highly similar across domains and that these genetic influences were mostly general. Environmental factors unique to each twin in a family (rather than shared by the 2 twins) explained most of the remaining variance, and these factors were mostly specific to each domain

KW - Twin method

KW - Quantitative genetics

KW - Covariation

KW - Individual differences

U2 - 10.1037/0022-0663.99.1.128

DO - 10.1037/0022-0663.99.1.128

M3 - Article

VL - 99

SP - 128

EP - 139

JO - Journal of Educational Psychology

JF - Journal of Educational Psychology

IS - 1

ER -