Heritability, the proportion of variation in a particular trait that is attributable to genetic factors, is a fundamental parameter in genetics. First introduced by Sewall Wright and Ronald Fisher ...

We propose to estimate the proportion of variance explained by regression on genome-wide markers (or genomic heritability) when wild/domestic status is considered the phenotype of interest. This ...

Despite years of research, the genetic factors behind many human diseases and characteristics remain unknown. The inability to find the complete genetic causes of family traits such as height or the ...

According to a news feature from the journal Nature, shortsightedness could be on the rise because children are spending less time outdoors than they used to. In short: myopia has undergone a marked ...

3 Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Orthopaedics, Lund, Sweden Correspondence to Karin Magnusson, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Orthopaedics Department of ...