Category: Missing Heritability
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Thinking about heritability
Heritability: The heritability of a trait within a population is the proportion of observable differences in a trait between individuals within a population that is due to genetic differences. Factors including genetics, environment and random chance c…
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More on the “missing heritability” and epistasis
Please see Luke Jostins’ posts at Genetic Inference and Genomes Unzipped. Update: Steve Hsu weighs in. He read the supplements! Mad props.
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“Missing heritability” – interaction edition
The Pith: A great deal of important medical genetic differences between people may be due to the nature of interactions of genetic variants. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know that there is a question in genomics right now as to “missing heritability.” The issue is basically that there are traits…
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Pygmies are short because nature made them so
Aka Pygmies The Pith: There has been a long running argument whether Pygmies in Africa are short due to “nurture” or “nature.” It turns out that non-Pygmies with more Pygmy ancestry are shorter and Pygmies with more non-Pygmy …
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Heritability and genes as causes
Since the beginning of this weblog (I’ve been writing for eight years) heritability has been a major confusion. Even long time readers misunderstand what I’m trying to get at when I talk about heritability. That’s why posts such as Mr. Luke Jostins‘ are so helpful. I had seen references to a piece online, The Causes of…