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. 2019 Jun 24;15(6):e1008222.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008222. eCollection 2019 Jun.

Solving the missing heritability problem

Alexander I Young  1
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Solving the missing heritability problem

Alexander I Young. PLoS Genet. .
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Fig 1. Comparison of heritability estimates from RDR and Sib-Regression in Iceland to Swedish twin studies.
The error bars give 95% confidence intervals for the estimates. The estimates are taken from Young et al. 2018 [27]. The RDR and Sib-Regression estimates are from Icelandic samples, and the Swedish twin estimates are taken from various publications utilising the Swedish twin registry [27,33].
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