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Heritability estimates in behavior genetics: Wasn't that station passed long ago?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2012

Wim E. Crusio
Wim E. Crusio*
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux and CNRS, F-33400 Talence, France. wim_crusio@yahoo.comhttp://www.incia.u-bordeaux1.fr/spip.php?article168
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Abstract

Charney describes several mechanisms that will bias estimates of heritability in unpredictable directions. In addition, the mechanisms described by Charney explain the puzzling fact that research in human-behavior genetics routinely reports higher heritabilities than animal studies do. However, I argue that the concept of heritability has no real place in human research anyway.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 361 - 362
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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