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This is a short story about John C. Loehlin who is now at the University of Texas at Austin, dealing with his original simulation models and developments, which led to his current latent variable models. This talk was initially presented at a special meeting for John before the BGA in Rhode Island, and I was very pleased to contribute. It probably goes without saying, but John helped create this important society, has been a key contributor to this journal for several decades, and he deserves a lot for this leadership.
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This research is funded by a NIH-MERIT Grant #AG07137-23 from the NIH-National Institute on Aging to the first author. Thanks also to Professor Eric Turkheimer, one of J. C. Loehlin’s many students, now teaching at the Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, for recognizing my interest in contributing as well as his useful editing to this well deserved festschrift.
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McArdle, J.J. Loehlin’s Original Models and Model Contributions. Behav Genet 44, 614–619 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-014-9688-0
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