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Familial studies of intelligence
Familial studies of intelligence is defined as studies in which some measure or measures of intelligence among people of a known genetic relationship are correlated; the extent to which performance varies as a function of genetic similarity is used as an indication of the heritability of that measure.
Please see also Heritability.
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