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The heritability of body composition [PDF]
BMC Pediatrics, 2021 Abstract Background Physical growth during childhood and adolescence is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Heritability, the proportion of phenotypic variance explained by genetic factors, has been demonstrated for stature and weight status. The aim of this study was to explore the heritability of body
Talya Rosenfeld +14 more
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Heritability of scoliosis [PDF]
European Spine Journal, 2011 To estimate the heritability of scoliosis in the Swedish Twin Registry.Self-reported data on scoliosis from 64,578 twins in the Swedish Twin Registry were analysed. Prevalence, pair- and probandwise concordances and tetrachoric correlations in mono- and dizygotic same-sex twins were calculated. The relative importance of genetic variance, i.e.
Iffat Rahman +3 more
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Quantifying the common genetic variability of bacterial traits [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The study of common heritability, or co-heritability, among multiple traits has been widely established in quantitative and molecular genetics. However, in bacteria, genome-based estimation of heritability has only been considered very recently and no methods are currently available for considering co-heritability.
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Heritability Estimated Using 50K SNPs Indicates Missing Heritability Problem in Holstein Breeding [PDF]
Genomics & Informatics, 2015 Previous studies in Holstein have shown 35% to 51.8% heritability in milk production traits, such as milk yield, fat, and protein, using pedigree data.
Donghyun Shin +4 more
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Finding the sources of missing heritability in a yeast cross [PDF]
, 2012 For many traits, including susceptibility to common diseases in humans, causal loci uncovered by genetic mapping studies explain only a minority of the heritable contribution to trait variation. Multiple explanations for this "missing heritability" have been proposed.
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Evolution, Heritable Risk, and Skewness Loving [PDF]
Theoretical Economics (16), 403-424, 2021, 2020 Our understanding of risk preferences can be sharpened by considering their evolutionary basis. The existing literature has focused on two sources of risk: idiosyncratic risk and aggregate risk. We introduce a new source of risk, heritable risk, in which there is a positive correlation between the fitness of a newborn agent and the fitness of her ...
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Genetics of callous-unemotional behavior in children.
PLoS ONE, 2013 Callous-unemotional behavior (CU) is currently under consideration as a subtyping index for conduct disorder diagnosis. Twin studies routinely estimate the heritability of CU as greater than 50%. It is now possible to estimate genetic influence using DNA
Essi Viding +7 more
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Heritability of Attractiveness to Mosquitoes [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2015 Female mosquitoes display preferences for certain individuals over others, which is determined by differences in volatile chemicals produced by the human body and detected by mosquitoes. Body odour can be controlled genetically but the existence of a genetic basis for differential attraction to insects has never been formally demonstrated.
Fernandez-Grandon, G. Mandela +4 more
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Heritability of Malaria in Africa [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2005 While many individual genes have been identified that confer protection against malaria, the overall impact of host genetics on malarial risk remains unknown.We have used pedigree-based genetic variance component analysis to determine the relative contributions of genetic and other factors to the variability in incidence of malaria and other infectious
Margaret J. Mackinnon +7 more
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Trait heritability in major transitions
BMC Biology, 2018 Background Increases in biological complexity and the origins of life’s hierarchical organization are described by the “major transitions” framework.
Matthew D. Herron +2 more
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