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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Reply to Yang et al.: GCTA produces unreliable heritability estimates.

Siddharth Krishna Kumar, Marcus W Feldman, David H Rehkopf, Shripad Tuljapurkar

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Siddharth Krishna KumarDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020; sidkk86@stanford.edu.
Marcus W FeldmanDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020;
David H RehkopfSchool of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020.
Shripad TuljapurkarDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020;

Funding

THE MATHEMATICAL DEMOGRAPHY OF BIODEMOGRAPHYP01AG022500 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI CAREY, JAMES R. · 2003 to 2010
$8.1M
Life course contexts and work - quantifying impacts on aging and chronic diseaseK01AG047280 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI REHKOPF, DAVID H · 2014 to 2018
$632k
NIA NIH HHS K01 AG047280NIA NIH HHS P01 AG022500
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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PMID27457962
PMCPMC4987787

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