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🧬 Passing traits by genes 🏠 Able to be inherited
heritability

heritability

3 8.1
How much parents pass a trait like height or eye colour to their children through genes
  • noun
  • /ˌhɛrɪtəˈbɪlɪti/
  • Specialized
: heredabilidad
  • Data from national twin studies have shown that the heritability of RA is around 60%.
  • heritability estimate
  • heritability of a trait
  • genetic heritability

And so then if you ask the question, well, what is the heritability for IQ tests score?

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Examples

  • Twin studies show a surprisingly strong degree of heritability of behavioral traits.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The findings of the current study indicated a low heritability estimate of 0.100081 for chest width.

    Academic text (2015)

  • And when this happened, the heritability estimates of the disease dropped.

  • Is there a difference in heritability between the male who experiences the trauma and the female?

  • We carry out the same steps for the heritability of height and reach similar conclusions.

    Academic text (2010)

  • And so then if you ask the question, well, what is the heritability for IQ tests score?

    Andrew Huberman

  • Early reports indicate high levels of heritability (Calsbeek et al. 2006, Calsbeek and Smith 2007).

    Academic text (2007)

  • Stature: A high heritability estimate of stature as 0.360092 has been obtained in the current study.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Their findings yielded a broad heritability estimate of 68% for the EETS.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Studies have revealed that the heritability of intelligence can be significant, affecting how traits are passed down through generations.

Synonyms

inheritability
vsheritability
  • Specialized
1 7.4

A trait that parents pass to their children in genes

measures how much a trait is passed genetically across generations

How Heritable

heritability
  • Specialized
3 8.1
inheritability
  • Specialized
1 7.4

Surface Forms

heritability singular
heritabilities plural

Morphology

heritability = heritable (semi-transparent) = herit + able + ity

The noun is regularly formed from 'heritable' with -ity, but the term is used in a specialized genetic sense that is not fully predictable from the pieces alone.

Etymology

Heritability comes from the same root as inherit and heritage, and is tied to the idea of an 'heir' who receives traits or things from parents. So, when used about traits, heritability means how much a feature is passed from parents to children through genes.