Can We Validate the Results of Twin Studies? A Census-Based Study on the Heritability of Educational Achievement

As for most phenotypes, the amount of variance in educational achievement explained by SNPs is lower than the amount of additive genetic variance estimated in twin studies. Twin-based estimates may however be biased because of self-selection and differences in cognitive ability between twins and the...

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Published in:Front Genet
Main Authors: Schwabe, Inga, Janss, Luc, van den Berg, Stéphanie M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Genetics
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662588/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29123543
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2017.00160
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