Heritability curves: A local measure of heritability in family models.

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Classical heritability models for family data split the phenotype variance into genetic and environmental components. For instance, the ACE model in twin studies assumes the phenotype variance decomposes as a2  + c2  + e2 , representing (additive) genetic effects, common (shared) environment, and residual environment, respectively. However, for some phenotypes it is biologically plausible that the genetic and...

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