Strong genetic influence on a UK nationwide test of educational achievement at the end of compulsory education at age 16.

Strong genetic influence on a UK nationwide test of educational achievement at the end of compulsory education at age 16.

We have previously shown that individual differences in educational achievement are highly heritable in the early and middle school years in the UK. The objective of the present study was to investigate whether similarly high heritability is found at the end of compulsory education (age 16) for the...

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Main Authors: Nicholas G Shakeshaft, Maciej Trzaskowski, Andrew McMillan, Kaili Rimfeld, Eva Krapohl, Claire M A Haworth, Philip S Dale, Robert Plomin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24349000/pdf/?tool=EBI

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