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ArticleStatistics in medicine2020

A robust and unified framework for estimating heritability in twin studies using generalized estimating equations.

Jaron Arbet, Matt McGue, Saonli Basu

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Article in Statistics in medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jaron ArbetDepartment of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
Matt McGueDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Saonli BasuDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1200-4546
University of Minnesota · USUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · US

Funding

Statistical Methods for detection of genome-wide GxE interactions in longitudinalR01DA033958 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI BASU, SAONLI · 2013 to 2016
$1.1M
Biostatistics in Genetics and Genomics Training ProgramT32GM108557 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI PAN, WEI · 2014 to 2018
$583k
Improved Heritability Estimation by Spatial Mapping of Genetic RelationshipsR21DA046188 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI BASU, SAONLI · 2018 to 2019
$398k
National Institute of Drug Abuse R01DA033958NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA033958NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA046188NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM108557
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 'heritability' of a phenotype measures the proportion of trait variance due to genetic factors in a population. In the past 50 years, studies with monozygotic and dizygotic twins have estimated heritability for 17,804 traits;

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Twins, DizygoticTwins, MonozygoticHumansPhenotypegeneralized estimating equationsheritabilitytwin studies

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PMID32449216
PMCPMC8520476
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