Sentences with phrase «high heritability for»

Not exact matches

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.

One possible explanation was that rare variants, which are largely untested by high - density SNP arrays, might account for some of that missing heritability.

In our study, an 18.3 % incidence of idiopathic epilepsy was found among related Irish wolfhounds with a high heritability of 0.87 for the trait.

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.

The best - fitting model revealed a high heritability of ADHD [0.88, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 0.83 — 0.92] for the entire sample.

The results showed that for both childhood and adult antisocial behavior, there was a high degree of heritability involved (Joseph, 2001).

Rather fewer meet the diagnostic criteria for research, which for the oppositional defiant type of conduct disorder seen in younger children require at least four specific behaviours to be present.7 The early onset pattern — typically beginning at the age of 2 or 3 years — is associated with comorbid psychopathology such as hyperactivity and emotional problems, language disorders, neuropsychological deficits such as poor attention and lower IQ, high heritability, 8 and lifelong antisocial behaviour.9 In contrast, teenage onset antisocial behaviour is not associated with other disorders or neuropsychological deficits, is more environmentally determined than inherited, and tends not to persist into adulthood.9

Furthermore, the high heritability of CU traits and their association with more chronic and serious aggression and antisocial behaviour problems make them a strong candidate for the driving force behind the familial transmission of aggressive behaviour that Halperin et al. [38] argue is mediated, in part, by reduced central serotonin function.

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.

The heritability for depression in girls was higher than that in boys [60].