Heritability & individual differences › Direct versus indirect genetic effects
Term
Direct versus indirect genetic effects
The distinction between effects operating through an individual’s own biology and effects mediated through genetically related people or their environments.
Context
Evidence & provenance
Source-backed trail
The project corpus supplies 1 supporting reference for this concept or its surrounding literature. The concise definition above is wiki-authored; consult the cited source directly for study design, population, estimates, and limitations. [1]
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