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The impact of gene-environment interaction and correlation on the interpretation of heritability.
Acta biotheoretica - 1 Sept 2012
Tal Omri
Abstract excerpt
The presence of gene-environment statistical interaction (GxE) and correlation (rGE) in biological development has led both practitioners and philosophers of science to question the legitimacy of heritability estimates. The paper offers a novel approach to assess the impact of GxE and rGE on the way genetic and environmental causation can be partitioned. A probabilistic framework is developed, based on a...
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