Sentence examples for heritability from inspiring English sources

Mr Bouchard's studies suggest that the level of one's intelligence is, in the jargon, "69-78% heritable"—heritability being the proportion of the difference between people that is acquired through the genes, not life itself.

However, for variations to have evolutionary effect they need to be (at least partly) hereditary or heritable (see entry on heritability; I will here focus on hereditary variations and hereditary transmissibility as defined above, and will not discuss the notion of heritability which is a population term).

The more demanding population genetic definition of heritability is that a heritable trait T is one where variation in T can be accounted for primarily by variation in genes as opposed to variation in the environment (see also the entry on heritability).

Effects like these show up in heritability analyses as statistical interactions between genes and environment, meaning that how heritable the trait is depends on the specific distribution of environments across the population.

They found that identical twins are 53% more likely either both to register or both not to register than are fraternal twins.Political signalsTwins studies like these unequivocally demonstrate the heritability of politically related behaviour.

It is striking that studies of twins regularly come up with higher levels of heritability than do other sorts of studies.

Studies comparing identical with non-identical twins have helped to establish the heritability of many aspects of behaviour, and examination of DNA has uncovered some of the genes responsible.

On average, though, these add up to only 10% of the total heritability of any given disease.

A lot of the angry debate between environmental determinists and genetic determinists has focused on how much of this is down to heritability of general intelligence (IQ, to the public; g, to practitioners).

Some had a family history of prodigious old age a pattern of heritability indicating that the study may have missed rare genetic variants.

It is possible probable, even that researchers who have been looking for this heritability in protein-coding genes have been looking in the wrong place.Drug companies, not surprisingly, are interested in what may be a new category of chemical they can turn into something effective.