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Further evidence for a gene influencing spatial ability
Authors:Geoffrey C Ashton  Ingrid B Borecki
Institution:(1) Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, 96822 Honolulu, Hawaii;(2) Division of Biostatistics, Departments of Preventive Medicine and Psychiatry, Washington, University School of Medicine, 63110 St. Louis, Missouri
Abstract:Data for six spatial tests from 927 families of European ancestry, 369 families of Japanese ancestry, and 93 families of Chinese ancestry from the Hawaiian Family Study of Cognition were subjected to unified mixed-model segregation analysis. Father, mother, son, and daughter data sets from each ethnic group were separately age-adjusted and standardized and then separately subjected to transformation procedures to reduce skewness and kurtosis. Families were reassociated prior to segregation analysis. Evidence for a major gene contributing to spatial visualizing ability was obtained for Mental Rotations and Progressive Matrices even with a normalizing transformation which reduced skewness and kurtosis to zero. It was concluded that provision for testing deviation from Mendelian transmission in the unified model protected against false inference of a segregating major gene. Minimizing distributional differences in the components of a data set is an important pretreatment.The results reported here are made possible by the collaboration of a group of investigators (G. C. Ashton, R. C. Johnson, M.-P. Mi, and M. N. Rashad at the University of Hawaii and J. C. DeFries, G. E. McClearn, S. G. Vandenberg, and J. R. Wilson at the University of Colorado) supported by NSF Grant GB 34720 and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant HD 06669. Support for I.B.B. was provided by NIMH Grant MH 14677.
Keywords:segregation analysis  spatial ability  Shepard-Metzler Mental Rotations test  Raven's Progressive Matrices test
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