Heritability & individual differences › Heritability
Term
Heritability
The proportion of observed phenotypic variance statistically associated with genetic variance in a specified population and environment; not a measure of immutability or an individual percentage.
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]
Related concepts
Further reading
- PubMed search for “Heritability”
- Google Scholar search for “Heritability”
- When comparing findings, inspect population, design, effect size, uncertainty, selection, and whether the inference is within-person, between-person, predictive, or causal.