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What does heritability mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The condition of being inheritable
  2. (genetics) The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin
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He mentions a new book on IQ and the heritability of criminal tendencies, among other things.
The US researchers are now studying the heritability of these marker genes.
Perhaps this heritability was limited to those cases in which the heiress transmitted the de facto headship of her house.
If you look at the heritability of depression, it's a similar kind of story.
An analogous operational definition holds for the heritability of derepressed cells.
Both the accuracy and precision of the estimates of dominant effects can be increased with increased sample size and heritability.

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