heritability in A Sentence

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    Heritability estimates for personality traits usually range from .40 to .50.

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    Yet a consistent finding was that virtually every measured trait showed at least some Heritability.

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    So if the Heritability of shyness is estimated at 40%, then environmental effects must be 60%.

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    Scientists now believe there may be more to the process of Heritability than once thought.

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    The reason is that it does not mention a key requirement for natural selection, namely the requirement of Heritability.

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    In Nigeria, however, where people experience a more variable access to good nutrition and health care, height has a Heritability of only 62%.

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    Various studies have found the Heritability of IQ to be between 0.7 and 0.8 in adults and 0.45 in childhood in the United States.

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    But among individuals sleeping just 5 hours a night, the Heritability of depressive symptoms was 53% and it was 49% for those sleeping 10 hours a night.

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    Heritability(how much the risk of a disease is explained by genetic factors) of type 2 diabetes has been estimated to be between 25 and 80 per cent in different studies.

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    Maternal effects, often assumed to be negligible, account for 20% of covariance between twins and 5% between siblings, and the effects of genes are correspondingly reduced, with two measures of Heritability being less than 50%.

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    The shared maternal(fetal) environment effects, often assumed to be negligible, account for 20% of covariance between twins and 5% between siblings, and the effects of genes are correspondingly reduced, with two measures of Heritability being less than 50.

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