Why twin studies really don't tell us much about human heritability
The derivation of heritability from human twin studies involves serious methodological flaws. Heritability is consistently overestimated because of biological confounds of twinning, consistent and often gross underestimation of the environmental variance, and nonadditive genetic influences that can...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Behavioral and brain sciences 1999-10, Vol.22 (5), p.904-905 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The derivation of heritability from human twin studies involves
serious methodological flaws. Heritability is consistently overestimated
because of biological confounds of twinning, consistent and often gross
underestimation of the environmental variance, and nonadditive genetic
influences that can hugely exaggerate heritability values. Despite this
bad research design, behaviour geneticists continue to publish results
implying that their heritability results are valid. |
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ISSN: | 0140-525X 1469-1825 |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0140525X99442207 |