Re-examining heritability: Genetics, life history and plasticity

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 421-428

  Wells, Jonathan C K ^a   Stock, Jay T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MATURATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TWINS;

CHRONIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79959500588     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: 18793061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2011.05.006     Document Type: Review

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