How meaningful are heritability estimates of liability?

Human Genetics

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1351-1360

  Benchek, Penny H ^a   Morris, Nathan J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACE LIABILITY THRESHOLD MODEL; ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GENE FREQUENCY; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SAMPLE SIZE; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS;

EID: 84889237300     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-013-1334-z     Document Type: Article

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