How to Use heritability in a Sentence

heritability

noun

• That’s on par with the heritability of cognitive traits like IQ in people, MacLean says.
  — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 17 Mar. 2021
• According to Werge, the heritability estimate is as high as 80% – the same as height.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
• Though their heritability varies, the traits, if already present in the DNA, are more likely to be expressed if the person suffers abuse in their earliest years.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• The mystery of missing heritability dates back to the late-2000s, when researchers began to use new tools to scan human genomes for common markers linked to diseases and traits.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 3 Nov. 2020
• In other words, the missing heritability isn't very missing at all.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2011
• In people, twin studies are the gold standard for measuring heritability [of traits].
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 20 Dec. 2019
• But with enough dogs, heritability is a good measure of what’s inherited.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Since then, studies have shown autism runs in families and have put its heritability at around 80 percent, or about as heritable as height or eye color.
  — Nicholette Zeliadt, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• The data can help determine the heritability level of many common diseases.
  — Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2018
• Given its high heritability, IASC over human height is likely.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2012
• The researchers then overlaid those trees with information on each individual’s health conditions, gleaned from billing codes and lab tests, and used the combined data to estimate the heritability of about 500 traits and diseases.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 17 May 2018
• The idea that intelligence is highly malleable also jars with research on its heritability.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Experts aren’t yet sure of which specific genes may be involved in bipolar disorder heritability, but having a parent or sibling with the condition can increase your risk, according to the NIMH.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Nov. 2018
• Schizophrenia has a high level of heritability in families.
  — Sonia Suter, Quartz, 22 Jan. 2022
• Researchers in Sweden and Minnesota had compared anorexia rates in identical and fraternal twins, a common approach to tease out heritability of complex traits and diseases.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 9 Apr. 2020
• To date no heritability (degree to which characteristics are transmitted from parents to offspring) has been demonstrated for any of these diseases.
  — Adrian Tordiffe, Smithsonian, 24 July 2017
• To date no heritability (degree to which characteristics are transmitted from parents to offspring) has been demonstrated for any of these diseases.
  — Adrian Tordiffe, Smithsonian, 24 July 2017
• So if heritability is 1.0 all of the variation is due genetic variation; offspring are just a linear combination of their parents.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2012
• The results suggest while use of antidepressants may increase a child's risk of psychiatric disease, heritability could also play a major role, according to study authors.
  — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 11 Sep. 2017
• Equation 1 summarizes a vast amount of literature on subjective well-being, starting with the question of the heritability of happiness.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
• One study showed that heritability of eating disorders in girls was 0 percent before puberty, but more than 50 percent afterward.
  — Kate Willsky, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
• McLean says dog breeds may be an ideal way to study the heritability of cognitive traits because breeds—all part of the same species—represent close genetic relatives with an incredibly diverse range of appearances and behaviors.
  — Viviane Callier, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
• Studies have also shown that it's commonly associated with genetics and has a high heritability.
  — Health.com, 27 Oct. 2021
• There are chapters on the development of genetics, the eugenics movement, the heritability of family traits and the field of epigenetics, which studies whether our genes can be altered by experience (short answer: it’s complicated).
  — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
• That is: Intelligence researchers, writing in dense, obscure academic journals, will continue to quietly present data that show that race influences the heritability of IQ to certain degrees; others will present data in disagreement.
  — John McWhorter, National Review, 5 July 2017
• In consideration of its effects on Lucas’ brother, however, the abuse parallel falls flat while the heritability of trauma angle (if that’s the interpretation) feels uncharitable to victims of trauma.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• When investigating whether a trait is genetic, scientists look at its heritability.
  — Madeleine Streets, SELF, 13 June 2022
• All that being said, what are the specific quantitative heritability estimates?
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2011
• A lot of the article is taken up with criticisms of political scientist John Alford's behavior genetic findings on the heritability of ideology.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2011
• The deviation from this expectation would have introduced errors into estimates of heritability and possibly masked the understanding of the genetic architecture of a trait.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2011

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024