Rethinking heritability

Heritability

What in your view is the distinguishing feature of developmental biology with respect to other natural sciences? It is the source of causality, the genome. Developmental biology differs from other sciences, physics, for example, most profoundly because of the organizing role of the primary informational content of the genome. The genomes of animals are the unique products of a billion years of ...

Work on Oneself: Rethinking Authenticity

This article addresses the concept of authenticity, a characteristic of late modern Western culture. This characteristic is viewed by some as an ideal and by others as a root of the problems inherent within Western culture. After discussing various viewpoints, the author supports the idea that authenticity should not be totally accepted or rejected and sets forth a proposal based on the so-call...

Rethinking Perspective : ' Rethinking Medicare Reform ' Needs

Rethinking learning: comments on Rethinking innateness.

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The mystery of missing heritability: Genetic interactions create phantom heritability.

Human genetics has been haunted by the mystery of "missing heritability" of common traits. Although studies have discovered >1,200 variants associated with common diseases and traits, these variants typically appear to explain only a minority of the heritability. The proportion of heritability explained by a set of variants is the ratio of (i) the heritability due to these variants (numerator),...