Methodological Considerations in Estimation of Phenotype Heritability Using Genome-Wide SNP Data, Illustrated by an Analysis of the Heritability of Height in a Large Sample of African Ancestry Adults.

Methodological Considerations in Estimation of Phenotype Heritability Using Genome-Wide SNP Data, Illustrated by an Analysis of the Heritability of Height in a Large Sample of African Ancestry Adults.

Height has an extremely polygenic pattern of inheritance. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed hundreds of common variants that are associated with human height at genome-wide levels of significance. However, only a small fraction of phenotypic variation can be explained by the aggre...

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Main Authors: Fang Chen, Jing He, Jianqi Zhang, Gary K Chen, Venetta Thomas, Christine B Ambrosone, Elisa V Bandera, Sonja I Berndt, Leslie Bernstein, William J Blot, Qiuyin Cai, John Carpten, Graham Casey, Stephen J Chanock, Iona Cheng, Lisa Chu, Sandra L Deming, W Ryan Driver, Phyllis Goodman, Richard B Hayes, Anselm J M Hennis, Ann W Hsing, Jennifer J Hu, Sue A Ingles, Esther M John, Rick A Kittles, Suzanne Kolb, M Cristina Leske, Robert C Millikan, Kristine R Monroe, Adam Murphy, Barbara Nemesure, Christine Neslund-Dudas, Sarah Nyante, Elaine A Ostrander, Michael F Press, Jorge L Rodriguez-Gil, Ben A Rybicki, Fredrick Schumacher, Janet L Stanford, Lisa B Signorello, Sara S Strom, Victoria Stevens, David Van Den Berg, Zhaoming Wang, John S Witte, Suh-Yuh Wu, Yuko Yamamura, Wei Zheng, Regina G Ziegler, Alexander H Stram, Laurence N Kolonel, Loïc Le Marchand, Brian E Henderson, Christopher A Haiman, Daniel O Stram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4488332?pdf=render

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