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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2009 Feb 27;50(8):911–919. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02074.x

Table 3.

Heritability, shared, nonshared, and identified environmental influence (along the diagonals) in Boston Naming Test years 1, 2 and 3 estimated from longitudinal expanded model. The off-diagonals represent parameter estimates of the genetic and environmental contributions to the correlation between longitudinal assessments of the Boston Naming Test [95% confidence intervals]

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Boston Naming Test
 A Year 1 .32 [.16–.53]
Year 2 .35 [.20–.51] .37 [.22–.56]
Year 3 .40 [.24–.60] .44 [.28–.63] .54 [.31–.80]
 C Year 1 .37 [.18–.57]
Year 2 .39 [.21–.57] .42 [.23–.61]
Year 3 .27 [.08–.46] .28 [.09–.47] .26 [.03–.50]
 E Year 1 .24 [.19–.30]
Year 2 .06 [.03–.11] .17 [.13–.22]
Year 3 .07 [.03–.12] .06 [.02–.10] .15 [.10–.21]
Home Literacy
 Environment Year 1 .08 [.03–.15]
Year 2 .05 [.01–.12] .04 [.01–.10]
Year 3 .07 [.02–.13] .06 [.02–.12] .07 [.02–.15]