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Heritability

Heritability is a measure in quantitative and statistical genetics that belongs to the broader category of genetic parameters and specifically quantifies the proportion of phenotypic variation in a trait attributable to genetic variation within a population under a given set of environmental conditions.

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Heritability Studies

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Introduction to Quantitative Genetics.

A. W. F. Edwards, D. S. Falconer · Biometrics · 1982 · 21.8K citations

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A global reference for human genetic variation

Richard Durbin, Peter Donnelly, Paul Flicek et al. · Nature · 2015 · 20K citations · Full text

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Detection of widespread horizontal pleiotropy in causal relationships inferred from Mendelian randomization between complex traits and diseases

Marie Verbanck, Chia‐Yen Chen, Benjamin M. Neale et al. · Nature Genetics · 2018 · 9.2K citations

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LD Score regression distinguishes confounding from polygenicity in genome-wide association studies

Brendan Bulik‐Sullivan, Po‐Ru Loh, Hilary K. Finucane et al. · Nature Genetics · 2015 · 6.3K citations · Full text

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Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height

Jian Yang, Beben Benyamin, Brian P. McEvoy et al. · Nature Genetics · 2010 · 4.8K citations

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Authors

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  1. RP
    Robert Plomin

    King's College London, United Kingdom

    247 publications · 26.4K citations

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  2. DI
    Dorret I. Boomsma

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    285 publications · 27.1K citations

    84

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  3. NG
    Nicholas G. Martin

    QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia

    241 publications · 30.9K citations

    84

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  4. JK
    Jaakko Kaprio

    University of Helsinki, Finland

    137 publications · 18.1K citations

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  5. NL
    Nancy L. Pedersen

    Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

    112 publications · 15.8K citations

    57

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Institutions

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    96 h-index

    1K publications

    1.2M citations

  2. King's College London

    London, United Kingdom

    94 h-index

    1.2K publications

    138.9K citations

  3. QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

    Brisbane, Australia

    92 h-index

    779 publications

    149.4K citations

  4. Karolinska Institutet

    Stockholm, Sweden

    90 h-index

    862 publications

    124K citations

  5. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    88 h-index

    807 publications

    200.5K citations

  6. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    86 h-index

    945 publications

    134.6K citations

  7. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    82 h-index

    1.2K publications

    119K citations

  8. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    82 h-index

    671 publications

    76.2K citations

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  1. Evolution

    304 publications · 30.5K citations

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  2. Genetics

    226 publications · 24.9K citations

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  3. Behavior Genetics

    283 publications · 18.2K citations

    75

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  4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 97 publications · 16K citations

    68

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  5. Journal of Animal Science

    282 publications · 12.8K citations

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