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Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies.
Nature genetics - 1 Jul 2015
Polderman Tinca J C, Benyamin Beben, de Leeuw Christiaan A, Sullivan Patrick F, van Bochoven Arjen, Visscher Peter M, Posthuma Danielle
Abstract excerpt
Despite a century of research on complex traits in humans, the relative importance and specific nature of the influences of genes and environment on human traits remain controversial. We report a meta-analysis of twin correlations and reported variance components for 17,804 traits from 2,748 publications including 14,558,903 partly dependent twin pairs, virtually all published twin studies of complex traits....
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