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Genetic factors and shared environment contribute equally to objective singing ability.
Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Genetic and Environmental Influences on Singing Self-Evaluation and its Relationship with Singing Ability: An Australian Twin Study.Behavior genetics · 2026Article
- Development of semantic verbal fluency in children aged 2 to 5 and its relationship with participating in music activities.PloS one · 2026Article
- Embodied Singing: Dual Role of Interoception in Vocal Expertise and Musical Competence.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Improving accuracy and precision of heritability estimation in twin studies through hierarchical modeling: reassessing the measurement error assumption.Frontiers in genetics · 2025Article
- Music as a social instrument: a brief historical and conceptual perspective.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Review
- Confronting ethical and social issues related to the genetics of musicality.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2023Article
- Improved Singing Accuracy in Children With Bilateral Hearing Devices With More Musical Activities and Better Verbal Fluency.Ear and hearingArticle
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Abstract
Singing ability is a complex human skill influenced by genetic and environmental factors, the relative contributions of which remain unknown. Currently, genetically informative studies using objective measures of singing ability across a range of tasks are limited. We administered a validated online singing tool to measure performance across three everyday singing tasks in Australian twins (n = 1189) to explore the relative genetic and environmental influences on singing ability. We derived a reproducible phenotypic index for singing ability across five performance measures of pitch and interval accuracy. Using this index we found moderate heritability of singing ability (
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