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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Main Authors: Sunyaev, Shamil R. (Contributor), Lander, Eric Steven (Author)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor), Lander, Eric S. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences, 2012-09-07T15:02:41Z.
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