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Unresolved discrepancy in genetics
In genetics, the missing heritability problem refers to a difference between heritability estimates obtained from early genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and heritability estimates from twin and family data across many physical and mental traits, including diseases, behaviors, and other phenotypes. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Missing heritability problemA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The problem with genetic heritability estimates in psychiatry: ‘missing heritability’ or missed cross-cultural environmental variation?Influential work since 2022
- Read the landmark paper: Epigenetic Inheritance and the Missing Heritability ProblemCited 286 times
- Go sideways: Genome-wide complex trait analysisA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Complex traitsA closely related topic
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Epigenetic Inheritance and the Missing Heritability Problem
Solving the missing heritability problem
Pharmacogenomics of Cytochrome P450 3A4: Recent Progress Toward the “Missing Heritability” Problem
The Human Microbiome and the Missing Heritability Problem
Limitations of GCTA as a solution to the missing heritability problem
Three legs of the missing heritability problem
Dissolving the Missing Heritability Problem
Asthma and the Missing Heritability Problem: Necessity for Multiomics Approaches in Determining Accurate Risk Profiles
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
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