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Sex effect on intelligence and mental retardation

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In a sample of 5049 pairs of individuals from high-risk pedigrees, no evidence could be found for a uterine or socialization maternal effect on IQ or on the incidence of mental retardation. The observed excess of affected males and higher risk for children of affected females are fully consistent with all of three multifactorial threshold models.

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  1. Ademar Freire-Maia & Dertia V. Freire-Maia

    Present address: Departamento de Genetica, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e Biológicas, Botucatú, São Paulo, Brasil

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  1. Population Genetics Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii

    Ademar Freire-Maia, Dertia V. Freire-Maia & Newton E. Morton

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This work was supported by Grants GM 17173 from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and 72/515, 72/516 from the Brazil “Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo”. This work is designated PGL paper 108.

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Freire-Maia, A., Freire-Maia, D.V. & Morton, N.E. Sex effect on intelligence and mental retardation. Behav Genet 4, 269–272 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01074159

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