doi: 10.1007/s10519-015-9730-x.
Epub 2015 Jul 26.
What Can an Adoption Study Tell Us About the Effect of Prenatal Environment on a Trait?
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What Can an Adoption Study Tell Us About the Effect of Prenatal Environment on a Trait?
Behav Genet.
2016 May.
Abstract
Adoption studies provide possibilities for estimating the extent to which prenatal environmental events account for individual differences on a trait. Correlations with birth mothers but not adoptive mothers suggest the presence of genetic or prenatal environmental effects; higher correlations with birth mothers than with birth fathers suggest the presence of the latter. Changes over time may also be relevant. The concepts involved are illustrated with parent-child IQ correlations from the Texas and Colorado Adoption Projects.
Keywords: Adoption; Adoptive parents; Birth parents; IQ; Prenatal environment.
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