TY  - JOUR
T1  - “Familiality” or heritability
AU  - Kendler KS, Neale MC
Y1  - 2009/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.14
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 452
EP  - 453
VL  - 66
IS  - 4
N2  - 
In their recent article, Hong et al1 reported heritabilities of auditory sensory gating. As they defined it in their article, heritability reflects the proportion of overall variability in a trait in a population that results from additive genetic effects. Within human populations, such estimates have traditionally relied on special relationships that can (with some well-understood limitations) disentangle genetic from familial-environmental effects. The most popular of these methods have been twin studies comparing monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs and various adoption designs.

SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.14
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.14
ER  -