Open AccessCommentary: Discussion of 'The History of Twins, As A Criterion Of The Relative Powers of Nature And Nurture' by Francis Galton (1875)
Author(s) -
Nicholas G. Martin
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dys110
Subject(s) - galton's problem , nature versus nurture , psychology , biology , genetics , mathematics , statistics
The classical twin study, wherein the similarity of monozygotic (MZ) twins is compared with that of dizygotic (DZ) twins to estimate the heritability of a trait (proportion of total Variance due to genetic
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