Three legs of the missing heritability problem

2022/05/06 by Lucas J. Matthews, Eric Turkheimer · 56 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks #Biology #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals #Genetic variants #Genetics #Heritability #Missing heritability problem #Twin study #Variation (astronomy)

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.04.004

published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 93, 183-191 (Elsevier BV)

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