Heritability & individual differences › Missing heritability
Term
Missing heritability
The gap between heritability suggested by family-based designs and variance accounted for by identified or measured genetic variation.
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 “Missing heritability”
- Google Scholar search for “Missing heritability”
- When comparing findings, inspect population, design, effect size, uncertainty, selection, and whether the inference is within-person, between-person, predictive, or causal.
References
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