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Abstract:
Four paper-and-pencil spatial tests, measuring two- and three-dimesional spatial visualization and spatial orientation, were administered to 2508 Caucasian high-school students. Sibling correlations and within-sex score distributions were examined for the influence of a major sex-linked gene. Sex-linked influences were most clear on the test of two-dimensional visualization and on an average of the standard scores on all the tests. For those tests best fitting the genetic model, estimates of the frequency of the recessive gene (contributing to good performance) we-re near 0.45. There was evidence of incomplete dominance in females. Environmental or non-sex-linked genetic factors influenced spatial performance but did not systematically improve performance with age.
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