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Re:New research suggests new ways to nurture gifted children by waterhouse on Saturday March 24, 2018 @08:30PM (#16669900)
Searching around a little bit...

http://medicine.jrank.org/pages/2465/Intelligence-Family-Twi...

"In twin studies of over 10,000 pairs of twins, monozygotic (genetically identical) twins averaged an 0.85 correlation of "g," whereas for dizygotic (fraternal, like brothers or sisters) same-sex twins the "g" correlations were 0.60. These twin studies suggest that the heritability (genetic effect) accounts for about half of the variance in "g" scores."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

Cites this particular twin study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7945151

"The powerful quantitative genetic design of identical and fraternal twins reared apart (112 pairs) and matched twins reared together (111 pairs) was employed to assess the extent of genetic influence on individual differences in cognitive abilities during the last half of the life span. General cognitive ability yielded a heritability estimate of about .80 in two assessments 3 years apart as part of the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging. This is one of the highest heritabilities reported for a behavioral trait. Across the two ages, average heritabilities are about .60 for verbal tests, .50 for spatial and speed-of-processing tests, and .40 for memory tests."

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