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heritability - The degree to which a given trait is controlled by inheritance, as opposed to being controlled by non-genetic factors. [FAO]

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High Blood Pressure Affects Kids Too  -  21 Aug 2007
TIMEIn addition, doctors have to take into account the child's family history (heritability of hypertension is about 50%) and such risk factors as low weight at

Heritability of Plasma Adiponectin Levels and Body Mass Index in Twins  -  Aug 6, 2007
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism,Design, Setting, Participants, and Main Outcome Measures: In a series of 60 pairs of healthy twins, we estimated genetic variance and heritability of ADPN

Kid's food aversion in the genes?  -  Aug 9, 2007
FoodNavigator.com,Recent work has used twin data to examine the heritability of food preferences, finding that heritability was modest for dessert foods (0.20), moderate for

Genetic and environmental influences on children's food neophobia ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
Am J Clin Nutr (subscription),The heritability estimate from model fitting was 0.78 (95% CI: 0.76, 0.79). A further 22% of the variance was explained by nonshared environmental factors,

Frontal release signs and cognition in people with schizophrenia ...  -  Aug 1, 2007
British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription),As an additional test of possible heritability in sibships, an intraclass correlation coefficient was calculated for total frontal release sign scores. Fig.

Parental Diagnoses in Youth With Narrow Phenotype Bipolar Disorder ...  -  Aug 1, 2007
Am J Psychiatry (subscription)Researchers have established a strong heritability for bipolar disorder. The concordance of bipolar disorder in monozygotic twins is 0.67–0.85,

Those who want to change get hope here  -  Aug 16, 2007
The Tennessean,...scientists who works at the cutting edge of DNA, concluded that "there is an inescapable component of heritability to many human behavioral traits.

The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment  -  Aug 14, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),...to genetic "miswiring," long-term exposure to a drug, or—more likely—a combination of genetic heritability, drug exposure, and environmental influences.

My best deal: drug relieves canine cancer symptoms  -  Aug 2, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,We know there is evidence for the heritability of conscientiousness as a personality trait. Whilst the concept of original sin appears to have fallen out of

Three most recent discussions  -  Aug 13, 2007
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)Bell Curve mangled basic genetic concepts such as heritability, as well as common sense, in their eagerness to conclude that human races differ in IQ.

Desperately Seeking DNA: The Whodunit surrounding Crime and Adoption  -  Aug 10, 2007
American Chronicle,Other researchers have determined that violent males have low levels of serotonin, a condition that has a high rate of heritability.

Creating a Social World A Developmental Twin Study of Peer-Group ...  -  Aug 6, 2007
Archives of General PsychiatryWhen standardized, the heritability of peer-group deviance is approximately 30% at ages 8 to 11 years and rises to approximately 50% across the last 3 time

Linkage of Genes to Total Lean Body Mass in Normal Women  -  Aug 6, 2007
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism,The crude heritability estimate was 74.0 ± 4.0%, after adjustment for the aforementioned factors; 65.2 ± 4.6% was attributable to independent genetic

Altering protein makes mice less fearful  -  Aug 2, 2007
HULIQ,...but the UI study raises the possibility that mutations or variations in the gene might be associated with heritability of, or predisposition for,

The Bipolar Disorder Phenome Database: A Resource for Genetic Studies  -  Aug 1, 2007
Am J Psychiatry (subscription)Several of the resulting variables were characterized in the total cohort and tested for familial clustering, heritability, and statistical power in genetic

Epidemiology and Course of Anorexia Nervosa in the Community  -  Aug 1, 2007
Am J Psychiatry (subscription)Science 1998; 280:1387–1390[Abstract/Free Full Text] Bulik CM, Sullivan PF, Tozzi F, Furberg H, Lichtenstein P, Pedersen NL: Prevalence, heritability,

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