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Sure. So here are a few of the highlights of the paper:

- They looked at nearly every single twin study over the last 50 years

- The combined population of the all the studies is 14 million twin pairs

- The results strongly suggest that every human trait is heritable as they didn't find one trait that had 0% heritability.

- The most surprising result for me is that across all the traits they compiled, the heritability is 49%. Which is much much lower than I would have expected.

There's a few more interesting points about monozygotic vs dizygotic, but I'll spare you the technicalities since it has a narrower scope of interest.

As always, thanks Gwern for the informative post.

parent e_modad 11 years ago

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