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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2010 Jun 5;153B(4):885–894. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.b.31054

TABLE IV.

Heritability Estimates for Cognitive Data

Traits N Heritability estimate Std. error P Age Sex Age × sex
Vocabulary 85 0.7827 0.258 0.016* 0.983 0.864 0.987
Similarities 85 0.8969 0.2215 0.012* 0.983 0.761 0.958
Information 85 0.9367 0.2553 0.012* 0.999 0.628 0.987
Block Design 69 0.7314 0.3039 0.035* 0.983 0.478 0.888
Matrix Reasoning 86 0.1531 0.3487 0.470 0.999 0.864 0.888
Digits Forward 85 0 0.500 0.983 0.628 0.888
Digits Back 85 0 0.500 0.921 0.817 0.888
Digit Span 85 0 0.500 0.999 0.864 0.981
LN Sequencing 84 0.0073 0.3224 0.500 0.983 0.817 0.888
Digit Symbol 72 0.8749 0.2442 0.012* 0.999 0.874 0.958
WRAT Reading 85 0.5879 0.2571 0.035* 0.999 0.864 0.888
WRAT Spelling 86 0.6056 0.4786 0.230 0.282 0.478 0.888
WRAT Arithmetic 86 0.7924 0.3071 0.035* 0.999 0.864 0.958
CVLT 1–5 Total 86 0.3542 0.2482 0.124 0.999 0.864 0.992
CVLT Immediate 86 0.4971 0.2541 0.043* 0.999 0.817 0.968
CVLT Delayed 86 0.7301 0.2653 0.019* 0.999 0.668 0.888
CVLT Recognition 86 0.2465 0.2849 0.296 0.999 0.478 0.968
Verbal Pairs Immediate 84 0.6171 0.2728 0.031* 0.999 0.864 0.958
Verbal Pairs Delayed 84 0.3830 0.2475 0.104 0.983 0.801 0.968
Visual Memory Immediate 83 0.7402 0.2671 0.019* 0.999 0.817 0.888
Visual Memory Delayed 82 0.5877 0.2652 0.035* 0.983 0.973 0.888
Boston Naming 83 0.7900 0.2760 0.019* 0.983 0.864 0.888
PPVT 85 0.8299 0.2661 0.016* 0.999 0.628 0.958
COWA Total 84 0.1734 0.2773 0.391 0.983 0.864 0.888
Stroop Interference 81 0.7453 0.3003 0.035* 0.983 0.618 0.888
Trails A Raw 85 0.3732 0.2710 0.130 0.983 0.864 0.987
Trails A Percentile 59 0 0.3437 0.500 0.999 0.550 0.958
Trails B Raw 81 0 0.500 0.983 0.864 0.958
Trails B Percentile 53 0.2335 0.4915 0.466 0.999 0.864 0.981
Tapping Dominant Raw 82 0.0662 0.1954 0.470 0.282 0.628 0.888
Tapping Dominant Percentile 69 0 0.500 0.517 0.511 0.888
Tapping Non-Dominant Raw 79 0.0142 0.1905 0.500 0.999 0.550 0.888
Tapping Non-Dominant Percentile 69 0.0162 0.2819 0.500 0.983 0.817 0.888
Pegboard Right Raw 89 0.7349 0.2704 0.019* 0.983 0.047* 0.968
Pegboard Right Percentile 75 0.7260 0.2617 0.026* 0.983 0.118 0.987
Pegboard Left Raw 90 0.4721 0.2397 0.043* 0.983 0.478 0.958
Pegboard both Raw 89 0.3473 0.2578 0.131 0.999 0.603 0.888
Pegboard Assemblies Raw 87 1 0.012* 0.999 0.864 0.888
Laterality 87 0 0.500 0.999 0.674 0.888
Factor 1: “g” 48 0.9826 0.3642 0.035* 0.999 0.723 0.888
Factor 2: Verbal Memory 48 0.8085 0.3439 0.035* 0.999 0.817 0.888
Factor 3: WM 48 0.1364 0.3662 0.470 0.999 0.864 0.888
Factor 4: Visual Memory 48 1 0.035* 0.999 0.864 0.888
Factor 5: Speed 48 0.1025 0.295 0.470 0.983 0.894 0.888
Factor 6: Inhibition 48 1 0.040* 0.999 0.511 0.888
Factor 7: Laterality 48 0 0.500 0.501 0.663 0.888
Factor 8: Motor 48 0.3401 0.3739 0.274 0.983 0.577 0.958
*

P<0.05.