A Twin Study of Mathematics Disability

Author:

Alarcón Maricela1,DeFries John C.2,Light Jacquelyn Gillis3,Pennington Bruce F.4

Affiliation:

1. Maricela Alarcón, is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology and a predoctoral trainee in the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder. Address: Maricela Alarcon, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Campus Box 447, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309.

2. John C. DeFries, is professor of psychology and director of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder. He is director of the Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center and serves as a consulting editor for the Journal of Learning Disabilities.

3. Jacquelyn Gillis Light, is assistant professor of psychology at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, and is an associate member of the Mac Arthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development.

4. Bruce F. Pennington, is professor of psychology at the University of Denver. He holds both a Research Scientist Award and a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health.

Abstract

Although results obtained from recent twin and adoption studies suggest that individual differences in mathematics performance are due in part to heritable influences, no genetic analysis of mathematics disability (MD) has been previously reported. In this article we present data from the first twin sample ascertained for mathematics deficits (40 identical and 23 same-sex fraternal twin pairs in which at least one member had MD). When mathematics performance data from these twin pairs were subjected to a multiple regression analysis, evidence for a significant genetic etiology was obtained. However, tests for the differential etiology of MD as a function of reading performance level were nonsignificant. Results of this first twin study of MD indicate that the condition is significantly heritable, but data from additional twin pairs will be required to test hypotheses of differential etiology more rigorously.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Health Professions,Education,Health (social science)

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