Heritability measures the fraction of phenotype variability that can be attributed to genetic variation. This is not the same as saying that this fraction of an individual phenotype is caused …

Heritability is a measure of how well differences in people’s genes account for the differences in their traits, including eye color, height, and more.

Heritability, amount of phenotypic (observable) variation in a population that is attributable to individual genetic differences. Heritability is applied in behavior genetics and quantitative …

We concern ourselves with the heritability of a trait -- the proportion of variation explained by genetic factors -- because only genetic effects can be transmitted to progeny.

Here, we provide an overview of common methods applied in genetic epidemiology to estimate heritability, i.e. the proportion of phenotypic variation explained by genetic variation.

In a given population, different people vary in their predisposition to develop a certain disease. The proportion of this variation between people that can be attributed to genetic factors, as …

Heritability is a fundamental concept in genetics. It is a parameter that summarizes how much of the variation in trait values in a population is due to variation in genetic factors.

The concept of “heritability” was introduced “to quantify the level of predictability of passage of a biologically interesting phenotype from parent to offspring” (Feldman, 151). Heritability is …

Dec 22, 2013 · Heritability concerns how much variation in traits is caused by variation in genes. If we looked a population of people and measured their height we are likely find variation …

The proportion of variation in a population trait that can be attributed to inherited genetic factors. Heritability estimates range from 0 to 1 and are often expressed as a percentage.