The behaviors of some heritability estimators in the complete absence of genetic factors

Human Heredity

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 215-228

  Guo, Sun Wei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental; Genetic; Heritability; Similarity; Variation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIBLING;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032807295     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022878     Document Type: Article

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