Sentences with phrase «high heritability estimates»

Despite high heritability estimates of 45 % in childhood and 80 % in adulthood, only a handful of genes had previously been associated with intelligence and for most of these genes the findings were not reliable.

Despite this, heritability estimates are still a very useful guide for breeding programmes: the higher the heritability estimate, the more gain will be made by selection.

Not exact matches

Twin studies show a higher concordance of AD among monozygotic compared to dizygotic twins, with heritability estimates of 60 % to 80 %.

Since we have estimated a moderate to high heritability of the condition it will be possible to use selective breeding to reduce the incidence of disease.

The heritability was estimated to be moderate to high, i.e., 0.22 to 0.51.

heritability estimates (the percentage of the trait we think is genetically determined) are higher when... more

The heritability of borderline personality disorder is estimated to be 0.67 [23], which is similar to or higher than heritability estimates for other major psychiatric disorders.