Heritability and missing heritability : can twin studies be trusted?
'Missing heritability' is the discrepancy between the amount of variance explained by specific single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified in genome-wide association (GWA) and twin-estimated heritability. Four categories of explanations have been proposed for missing heritability: (1...
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King's College London (University of London)
2013
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.634144 |