The mystery of missing heritability: Genetic interactions create phantom heritability
Human genetics has been haunted by the mystery of "missing heritability" of common traits. Although studies have discovered >1,200 variants associated with common diseases and traits, these variants typically appear to explain only a minority of the heritability. The proportion of herit...
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National Academy of Sciences,
2012-09-07T15:02:41Z.
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