Interpreting estimates of heritability-A note on the twin decomposition

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 201-205

  Stenberg, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adoption studies; Environments; Gene environment interaction; Genes; Twin studies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; INTELLIGENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84875272508     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: 18736130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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