Sentence examples for spread of heritability from inspiring English sources

Given the point estimates for the number of causal variants for epilepsy, the histograms in Fig. 2B show the spread of heritability for each of the four distributions.

There were different degrees of spread in heritabilities, ranging from equal values for all traits (A, I, M and R) to sets of values which spanned a length interval of 0.80 (E, H, and O) and sets with a very uneven distribution of heritabilities (G, H, L, U and V).

The key concept here is of heritability.

Visualization of heritability estimates associated to landmark-wise curvature traits produced high-definition heritability maps.

Values of heritability range between zero and one.

Heritability estimates for individual landmark traits were combined to provide detailed global maps of heritability for the human face.

Estimates of heritability cluster strongly within functional domains, and across all traits the reported heritability is 49%.

The key point is that an estimate of heritability is a within population measure.

But perhaps we need to look again at the evidence for these high levels of heritability.

"Most reputable opinion now believes that there is a mix of heritability and environment in intelligence.

In addition to their excellent treatment of these tools, they mention only briefly recent approaches that use genome-wide markers to explore the heritability of traits, including partitioned heritability, citing a relevant 2013 review of heritability methods2.