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PhD Psychology University of Colorado Boulder
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According to Wikipedia, Stephen Petrill is an American psychologist. Biography Petrill obtained his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame in 1990 and got his Ph.D. in the same field five years later at the Case Western Reserve University. Two years later he started working at the Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre in London and then worked at Wesleyan University until 2001. Since that year he worked at the Penn State University until 2006 and then had a job at the Ohio State University where he still works. Currently he is also an editor of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and prior to it was chairman of the Behavioral Genetic and Epidemiology Study Section at National Institutes of Health. He also serves as a member of the Basic Processes Review Panel at the Institute for Education Sciences and was an author of numerous peer-reviewed papers relating to his studies which brought him an h-index of 35. In 2012 he became a director and principal investigator and became a leader of various teams from such universities as University of Colorado, Florida State, Vanderbilt, Houston, and Free University Amsterdam with a goal to construct the Learning Disabilities Innovation Hub on a grant of $2,394,311 which was awarded to him by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. On it he is working with John Opfer, an associate professor of psychology from Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging and Zhong-lin Lu a professor of psychology and director.

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Substantial genetic influence on cognitive abilities in twins 80 or more years old. (1997) (646)
The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood (2010) (546)
Infant zygosity can be assigned by parental report questionnaire data. (2000) (405)
Why is math so hard for some children? The nature and origins of mathematical learning difficulties and disabilities (2007) (318)
One-year use and cost of inpatient and outpatient services among female and male patients with an eating disorder: evidence from a national database of health insurance claims. (2000) (249)
Comorbidity Between Reading Disability and Math Disability (2013) (242)
Genetics and Intelligence: What's New?. (1997) (194)
Conduct problems, IQ, and household chaos: a longitudinal multi-informant study. (2009) (176)
The ABCs of Math: A Genetic Analysis of Mathematics and Its Links With Reading Ability and General Cognitive Ability. (2009) (176)
Parent-child dyadic mutuality and child behavior problems: an investigation of gene-environment processes. (2004) (173)
Maternal Warmth Moderates the Link Between Physical Punishment and Child Externalizing Problems: A Parent - Offspring Behavior Genetic Analysis (2006) (167)
Maternal Working Memory and Reactive Negativity in Parenting (2010) (166)
Chaos in the home and socioeconomic status are associated with cognitive development in early childhood: Environmental mediators identified in a genetic design. (2004) (165)
Order in the House! Associations among Household Chaos, the Home Literacy Environment, Maternal Reading Ability, and Children’s Early Reading (2008) (152)
Who is afraid of math? Two sources of genetic variance for mathematical anxiety. (2014) (149)
The validity of parent-based assessment of the cognitive abilities of 2-year-olds (1998) (149)
Is Math Anxiety Always Bad for Math Learning? The Role of Math Motivation (2015) (144)
The Dimensionality of Language Ability in Young Children. (2015) (121)
Mothers’ Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Socialization of Transracially Adopted Asian Children (2007) (119)
Nonshared environmental processes in social‐emotional development: an observational study of identical twin differences in the preschool period (2001) (114)
SES and CHAOS as environmental mediators of cognitive ability: A longitudinal genetic analysis. (2007) (108)
A genome-wide association study identifies multiple loci associated with mathematics ability and disability (2010) (105)
Genetic and environmental contributions to general cognitive ability through the first 16 years of life. (2004) (104)
'Generalist genes' and mathematics in 7-year-old twins. (2005) (97)
Overlap and specificity of genetic and environmental influences on mathematics and reading disability in 10-year-old twins. (2007) (96)
Gender differences in language of AD patients (1995) (94)
Interventions for Internationally Adopted Children and Families: A Review of the Literature (2007) (93)
Longitudinal Genetic Analysis of Early Reading: The Western Reserve Reading Project (2006) (92)
Why do spatial abilities predict mathematical performance? (2014) (92)
A Twin Study of Teacher-Reported Mathematics Performance and Low Performance in 7-Year-Olds. (2004) (91)
Reading Skills in Early Readers (2006) (89)
The correlation between reading and mathematics ability at age twelve has a substantial genetic component (2014) (87)
Allelic associations between 100 DNA markers and high versus low IQ (1995) (80)
Generalist genes and learning disabilities: a multivariate genetic analysis of low performance in reading, mathematics, language and general cognitive ability in a sample of 8000 12-year-old twins. (2009) (80)
Anger/frustration, task persistence, and conduct problems in childhood: a behavioral genetic analysis. (2007) (79)
Feasibility, efficacy, and social validity of home-based storybook reading intervention for children with language impairment. (2011) (77)
Measured Environmental Influences on Early Reading: Evidence From an Adoption Study (2005) (77)
Why children differ in motivation to learn: Insights from over 13,000 twins from 6 countries (2015) (76)
Mathematical Ability of 10-Year-Old Boys and Girls (2007) (75)
The Validity of a Parent-based Assessment of Cognitive Abilities in Three-year Olds* (2002) (74)
Genetic and Environmental Effects of Serial Naming and Phonological Awareness on Early Reading Outcomes. (2006) (70)
Molarity Versus Modularity of Cognitive Functioning? (1997) (70)
Predicting individual differences in reading comprehension: a twin study (2010) (70)
Exploring How Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Are Related to Reading and Mathematics Performance (2010) (69)
An Exploration of Genetic "g:" Hierarchical Factor Analysis of Cognitive Data from the Western Reserve Twin Project. (1994) (68)
"Teacher Effects" in Early Literacy Development: Evidence from a Study of Twins. (2010) (65)
Intelligence and Achievement: A Behavioral Genetic Perspective (2000) (64)
Gene-environment interaction between DRD4 7-repeat VNTR and early child-care experiences predicts self-regulation abilities in prekindergarten. (2014) (64)
Parenting and Child Behaviour Problems: a Longitudinal Analysis of Non-Shared Environment. (2009) (61)
Math Fluency Is Etiologically Distinct From Untimed Math Performance, Decoding Fluency, and Untimed Reading Performance (2012) (61)
Inspection time and intelligence (2001) (60)
Reading development in young children: genetic and environmental influences. (2013) (58)
Evidence for shared genetic risk between ADHD symptoms and reduced mathematics ability: a twin study. (2014) (57)
A factorial analysis of timed and untimed measures of mathematics and reading abilities in school aged twins. (2010) (56)
Testing cognitive abilities by telephone in a sample of 6-to 8-year-olds (2002) (56)
Genetic and environmental influences on the growth of early reading skills. (2010) (55)
Children's history of speech-language difficulties: genetic influences and associations with reading-related measures. (2006) (55)
A latent profile analysis of math achievement, numerosity, and math anxiety in twins. (2016) (54)
Task orientation, parental warmth and SES account for a significant proportion of the shared environmental variance in general cognitive ability in early childhood: evidence from a twin study. (2004) (53)
Mathematics is differentially related to reading comprehension and word decoding: Evidence from a genetically-sensitive design. (2012) (53)
From classroom environment to mathematics achievement: The mediating role of self-perceived ability and subject interest (2016) (51)
Gene–environment interaction between dopamine receptor D4 7-repeat polymorphism and early maternal sensitivity predicts inattention trajectories across middle childhood (2013) (50)
The genetic and environmental aetiology of spatial, mathematics and general anxiety (2017) (50)
Why do we differ in number sense? Evidence from a genetically sensitive investigation☆ (2014) (49)
Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators: Efforts to Improve Math and Science Learning Opportunities in Early Childhood Classrooms. (2015) (48)
Temperament in middle childhood: A behavioral genetic analysis of fathers' and mothers' reports. (2009) (47)
Generalist genes and the Internet generation: etiology of learning abilities by web testing at age 10 (2008) (46)
Nature, nurture and academic achievement: a twin study of teacher assessments of 7-year-olds. (2004) (45)
Environmental influences on the longitudinal covariance of expressive vocabulary: measuring the home literacy environment in a genetically sensitive design. (2009) (45)
Effortful Control, Surgency, and reading skills in middle childhood (2009) (45)
The Genetic and Environmental Relationship Between General and Specific Cognitive Abilities in Twins Age 80 and Older (1998) (45)
Developmental Origins of Low Mathematics Performance and Normal Variation in Twins from 7 to 9 Years (2007) (44)
Executive dysfunction in children with early brain disease: Outcomes post Haemophilus influenzae meningitis (1996) (43)
Approach/positive anticipation, frustration/anger, and overt aggression in childhood. (2010) (42)
No Association Between General Cognitive Ability and the A1 Allele of the D2 Dopamine Receptor Gene (1997) (40)
A longitudinal behavioral genetic analysis of task persistence. (2006) (40)
Children’s Attendance Rates and Quality of Teacher-Child Interactions in At-Risk Preschool Classrooms: Contribution to Children’s Expressive Language Growth (2011) (39)
Ready to Adopt: Characteristics and Expectations of Preadoptive Families Pursuing International Adoptions (2008) (39)
Comprehending text versus reading words in young readers with varying reading ability: distinct patterns of functional connectivity from common processing hubs. (2016) (39)
The Origins of Diverse Domains of Mathematics: Generalist Genes but Specialist Environments. (2007) (38)
Reading Self-Perceived Ability, Enjoyment and Achievement: A Genetically Informative Study of Their Reciprocal Links Over Time (2017) (38)
Relations among home literacy environment, child characteristics and print knowledge for preschool children with language impairment (2014) (38)
Multidimensionality in the Measurement of Math-Specific Anxiety and its Relationship with Mathematical Performance. (2016) (37)
The independent prediction of general intelligence by elementary cognitive tasks: Genetic and environmental influences (1996) (36)
Number Sense and Mathematics: Which, When and How? (2017) (34)
Associations between reading achievement and independent reading in early elementary school: a genetically informative cross-lagged study. (2011) (34)
Externalizing problems, attention regulation, and household chaos: A longitudinal behavioral genetic study (2012) (33)
Genetic influences on language, reading, and mathematics skills in a national sample: an analysis using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. (2010) (33)
A genetically sensitive investigation of the effects of the school environment and socio‐economic status on academic achievement in seven‐year‐olds (2005) (31)
A cross-sectional behavioral genetic analysis of task persistence in the transition to middle childhood. (2005) (31)
A polymorphism in mitochondrial DNA associated with IQ (1995) (31)
Development in reading and math in children from different SES backgrounds: the moderating role of child temperament. (2017) (30)
Nature, nurture, and the transition to early adolescence (2003) (30)
Comorbidity between verbal and non‐verbal cognitive delays in 2‐year‐olds: a bivariate twin analysis (2001) (29)
Genetic effects on children's conversational language use. (2008) (29)
Elementary cognitive tasks and their roles in g estimates (1999) (28)
Comprehending expository texts: the dynamic neurobiological correlates of building a coherent text representation (2013) (28)
The Genetic and Environmental Etiology of High Math Performance in 10-Year-Old Twins (2009) (28)
Heritability Across the Distribution: An Application of Quantile Regression (2012) (27)
The phenotypic and genetic relationships among measures of cognitive ability, temperament, and scholastic achievement (1993) (27)
Longitudinal Stability in Reading Comprehension Is Largely Heritable from Grades 1 to 6 (2015) (26)
Exploring the genetic and environmental etiology of high general cognitive ability in fourteen- to thirty-six-month-old twins. (1998) (25)
Impact of prematurity on language skills at school age. (2014) (25)
Increasing Genotype-Phenotype Model Determinism: Application to Bivariate Reading/Language Traits and Epistatic Interactions in Language-Impaired Families (2010) (24)
Conversational language use as a predictor of early reading development: language history as a moderating variable. (2010) (23)
Low expressive vocabulary: higher heritability as a function of more severe cases. (2005) (23)
“That Was Smooth, Mom”: Children's Production of Verbal and Gestural Irony (2009) (23)
The heritability of general cognitive ability: A within-family adoption design (2004) (23)
The Nature and Nurture of High IQ (2013) (22)
Generalist genes analysis of DNA markers associated with mathematical ability and disability reveals shared influence across ages and abilities (2010) (22)
Exploring the genetic etiology of low general cognitive ability from 14 to 36 months. (1997) (21)
Catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158met polymorphism interacts with early experience to predict executive functions in early childhood. (2015) (21)
Are working memory and behavioral attention equally important for both reading and listening comprehension? A developmental comparison (2018) (21)
Gene × Gene Interaction in Shared Etiology of Autism and Specific Language Impairment (2012) (19)
Genetic and environmental origins of verbal and performance components of cognitive delay in 2-year-olds. (1999) (19)
Genetic Covariation Underlying Reading, Language and Related Measures in a Sample Selected for Specific Language Impairment (2011) (19)
The effect of gender upon heritability and common environmental estimates in measures of scholastic achievement (1994) (18)
Inspection time and the relationship among elementary cognitive tasks, general intelligence, and specific cognitive abilities (2001) (18)
Genetic and environmental molarity and modularity of cognitive functioning in 2-year-old twins (2001) (16)
Working Memory and Parent-Rated Components of Attention in Middle Childhood: A Behavioral Genetic Study (2012) (16)
Volubility as a mediator in the associations between conversational language measures and child temperament. (2011) (15)
Failure to replicate a QTL association between a DNA marker identified by EST00083 and IQ (1997) (14)
Bridging the Gap Between Genomics and Education. (2007) (14)
Genetic factors underlie the association between anxiety, attitudes and performance in mathematics (2019) (14)
It Depends (2014) (13)
The Dimensionality of Spanish in Young Spanish-English Dual-Language Learners. (2015) (13)
Parents' Feelings Towards Their Adoptive and Non-Adoptive Children. (2009) (12)
DNA markers associated with general and specific cognitive abilities. (1996) (12)
The Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Project (2003) (12)
Invariance of ADHD Symptoms Across Sex and Age: a Latent Analysis of ADHD and Impairment Ratings from Early Childhood into Adolescence (2019) (12)
Low cognitive functioning in nondemented 80+-year-old twins is not heritable (2001) (11)
Gene × smoking interactions on human brain gene expression: finding common mechanisms in adolescents and adults. (2013) (11)
Gene x gene Interactio in Shared Etiology of Autism and Specific Language Impairment (2012) (10)
Etiological Distinction of Working Memory Components in Relation to Mathematics. (2014) (9)
Introduction to This Special Issue: Genes, Environment, and the Development of Reading Skills (2005) (8)
Sluggish cognitive tempo: longitudinal stability and validity (2019) (8)
Left posterior prefrontal regions support domain-general executive processes needed for both reading and math. (2020) (8)
Approximate Number Sense Shares Etiological Overlap with Mathematics and General Cognitive Ability. (2017) (8)
Etiological Distinction Across Dimensions of Math Anxiety (2019) (8)
Longitudinal Associations Across Prematurity, Attention, and Language in School-Age Children. (2017) (8)
Overlapping genetic and child-specific nonshared environmental influences on listening comprehension, reading motivation, and reading comprehension. (2015) (8)
'Return to home cage' as a reward for maze learning in young and old genetically heterogeneous mice. (2006) (8)
Environmental Influences on Reading-Related Outcomes: An Adoption Study. (2007) (8)
Gene-environment interplay in child psychology and psychiatry--challenges and ways forward. (2013) (7)
Molecular Genetic Evidence for Shared Etiology of Autism and Prodigy (2015) (7)
Behavioral Genetics, Genomics, Intelligence, and Mental Retardation (2011) (7)
Observed Personality in Childhood: Psychometric and Behavioural Genetic Evidence of Two Broad Personality Factors (2013) (7)
What genetic research on intelligence tells us about the environment (1996) (7)
The nature of the association between number line and mathematical performance: An international twin study. (2018) (7)
The Russian School Twin Registry (RSTR): Project PROGRESS (2012) (7)
Characterizing and decomposing the neural correlates of individual differences in reading ability among adolescents with task-based fMRI (2019) (6)
Longitudinal stability in genetic effects on children's conversational language productivity. (2012) (5)
Generalist Genes, Specialist Environments and the Internet Generation: Etiology of Learning Abilities Using Web-based Testing at 10 Years (2007) (5)
Examining Social Behavior and Relationships Using Genetically Sensitive Designs (2003) (5)
Twin Gestation Pregnancies: Genetic Counseling and Testing Experience (2006) (5)
Parent Report of Children's Abilities (2018) (4)
Mitochondrial DNA marker EST00083 is not associated with high vs. average IQ in a German sample (1998) (4)
Improving Reading Comprehension 1 1 Running Head: IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION Improving Reading Comprehension in the Primary Grades: Mediated Effects of a Language-Focused Classroom Intervention Language and Reading Research Consortium (LARRC) (2019) (4)
Genetics for Education (2013) (4)
Behavioral Genetics and Intelligence (2005) (3)
Forming Big Datasets through Latent Class Concatenation of Imperfectly Matched Databases Features (2019) (3)
Longitudinal Effects on Early Adolescent Language: A Twin Study. (2016) (3)
A Comparison of Methods for Assessing Performance on the Number Line Estimation Task (2018) (3)
The Genetics and Environments of Reading: A Behavioral Genetic Perspective (2009) (3)
Nature, Nurture, and Adolescent Development (2003) (3)
Behavioural Genetic Studies of Reading and Mathematics Skills (2016) (3)
Overlap and specificity of genetic and environmental influences on reading and mathematics disability in 10 year-old twins. (2007) (2)
Individual Differences in Mathematics Ability (2016) (2)
Individual Differences in Addition Strategy Choice: A Psychometric Evaluation (2019) (2)
Generalist genes and mathematics (2005) (2)
Genetic influences on language, reading, and mathematic skills in a national sample (2010) (1)
Longitudinal Associations Between Reading Achievement and Reading Motivation (2017) (1)
The Angular Gyrus as a Hub for Modulation of Language-related Cortex by Distinct Prefrontal Executive Control Regions (2022) (1)
Memory Ability during Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence in the Colorado Adoption Project (2003) (1)
Ethical Implications of Behavioral Genetics on Education (2017) (1)
Ability and heritability: investigating the continuous effect of IQ score on IQ etiology in multiple samples (2010) (1)
Editorial: bridging gaps between basic research and clinical practice. (2014) (1)
Editorial: identifying the cognitive and physiological underpinning of child psychiatric conditions. (2012) (1)
Gene 3 smoking interactions on human brain gene expression : finding common mechanisms in adolescents and adults (2013) (1)
From aardvark to ziggurat: A new tool for assessing children's use of rare vocabulary (2015) (1)
Integrating neurobiological, genetic, and environmental risk factors in cognitive and behavioral conditions. (2013) (1)
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Decoding Skills – Implications for Music and Reading (2019) (1)
Erratum: Genetic effects on children's conversational language use (Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (2008) 51:2 (423-435) 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/031)) (2008) (0)
The differential relations between ADHD and reading achievement: A quantile regression and quantile genetic approach. (2021) (0)
Subject Index Vol. 70, 2010 (2011) (0)
It Depends: The Conditional Correlation Between Frequency of Storybook Reading and Emergent Literacy Skills in Children At Risk for Language Difficulty (2018) (0)
The Etiology of Reading and Math Expertise (2017) (0)
Extremes in cognitive functioning in the oldest-old: A DeFries-Fulker analysis of non-demented octogenarian twins (1998) (0)
Behavioral Genetics and Developmental Disabilities (2019) (0)
Heritability Across the Distribution: An Application of Quantile Regression (2011) (0)
Reading Performance : Evidence From a Twin Study Math Fluency Is Etiologically Distinct From Untimed Math Performance , Decoding Fluency , and Untimed (2012) (0)
Children Born Prematurely May Demonstrate Catch-Up Growth in Pre-Adolescence. (2021) (0)
The origins of individual differences in mathematicalability (2007) (0)
Running Head : ABC ’ s of math The ABC ’ s of math : A genetic analysis of mathematics and its links with reading ability and general cognitive ability (2015) (0)
Predicting individual reading ability based on anatomical and functional neural connectivity (2019) (0)
Individual differences in mathematical ability: A behavioral genetic approach. (2016) (0)
Race-Related Socialization Questionnaire--Adapted Version (2018) (0)
The Differential Relations Between ADHD and Reading Comprehension: A Quantile Regression and Quantile Genetic Approach (2021) (0)
Application of a Latent Trait Modeling Method for Missing Data Across Datasets: Guidance on Appropriate Factor Structure (2022) (0)
Genetics of Normal and Abnormal Behaviour in Childhood - the Abnormal is Normal: The Same Genetic and Environmental Factors Affect Normal Variation in Mathematical Ability and Common Mathematical Disability (2007) (0)
The phenotypic and genetic relationships among school-related temperament, intelligence, and scholastic achievement (1995) (0)
Genetic Factors in Cognition/Intelligence (2001) (0)
JCPP – The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry : a history from the inside (2009) (0)
Mathematics, reading and IQ: A multivariate genetic analysisin 7-year-old twins (2004) (0)
Working Memory and Parent-Rated Components of Attention in Middle Childhood: A Behavioral Genetic Study (2011) (0)
Learning and Individual Differences (2016) (0)
Editorial: From measured behavior to etiology. (2009) (0)
SHORT REPORT Why do spatial abilities predict mathematical performance (2014) (0)
Etiological Distinction Across Dimensions of Math Anxiety (2019) (0)
Are working memory and behavioral attention equally important for both reading and listening comprehension? A developmental comparison (2018) (0)
The Genetics of Behavioural Ageing (2005) (0)
Core Knowledge Preschool Assessment Tool–Science (2015) (0)
Teacher Effects 1 (2010) (0)
Invariance of ADHD Symptoms Across Sex and Age: a Latent Analysis of ADHD and Impairment Ratings from Early Childhood into Adolescence (2018) (0)
Editorial: Gene-environment interplay and development. (2011) (0)
A Behavioral Genetic Approach to Understanding the Connection Between Reading Motivation and Reading Outcomes in Early Adolescence (2015) (0)
Contents Vol. 70, 2010 (2011) (0)
Genetic and Environmental Contributions to the Link between Effortful Control and Surgency (2015) (0)
Editorial: identifying the genetic and environmental influences on psychological outcomes. (2010) (0)
Reading and Mathematics Skills (2016) (0)
Relations between Home Literacy Environment, Child Characteristics, and Print Knowledge for Preschool Children with Language Impairment (2018) (0)
Wordlist for Expressive Rare Vocabulary Evaluation (2016) (0)
Development of comprehension monitoring in beginner readers (2017) (0)

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