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Meaning of "heritability" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HERITABILITY

heritability  [ˌherɪtəˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HERITABILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heritability is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HERITABILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

heritability

Heritability

The heritability of a trait is the square of the coefficient of G in a linear approximation to the surface GxE to trait. Factors including genetics, environment and random chance can all contribute to the variation between individuals in their observable characteristics. Heritability thus analyzes the relative contributions of differences in genetic and non-genetic factors to the total phenotypic variance in a population. For instance, some humans in a population are taller than others; heritability attempts to identify how much genetics play a role in part of the population being extra tall. Heritability is measured by estimating the relative contributions of genetic and non-genetic differences to the total phenotypic variation in a population. Heritability is an important concept in quantitative genetics, particularly in selective breeding and behavior genetics, but is less widely used in population genetics. Heritability measures the fraction of phenotype variability that can be attributed to genetic variation. This is not the same as saying that this fraction of an individual phenotype is caused by genetics.

Definition of heritability in the English dictionary

The definition of heritability in the dictionary is the quality of being able to be inherited.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HERITABILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HERITABILITY

hereunder
hereunto
hereupon
Hereward
herewith
Hering
heriot
heriotable
Herisau
herisson
heritable
heritably
heritage
heritage centre
heritage industry
heritage site
heritor
heritress
heritrix
herl

WORDS THAT END LIKE HERITABILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of heritability in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heritability» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HERITABILITY

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The translations of heritability from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heritability» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

遗传
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

heredabilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

heritability
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आनुवांशिकता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التوريث
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наследуемость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

herdabilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উত্তরাধিকারিতার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

héritabilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Heritability
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Erblichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

遺伝可能性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유전
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Heritability
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

di truyền
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாரம்பரியத்திறனில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सभ्यता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kalıtım
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ereditabilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dziedziczność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наследуемость
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ereditate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κληρονομικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorerflikheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ärftlighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

arvbarhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heritability

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HERITABILITY»

The term «heritability» is regularly used and occupies the 90.540 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HERITABILITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heritability

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HERITABILITY»

Discover the use of heritability in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heritability and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Making Sense of Heritability
In this 2005 book, Neven Sesardic defends the view that it is both possible and useful to measure the separate contributions of heredity and environment to the explanation of human psychological differences.
Neven Sesardic, 2005
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Heritability of Subtrochanteric Femur Shape (Platymeric ...
Platymeric Index (PI), the degree of anterior-posterior subtrochanteric flatness of the femur, has been used to study ancestry in human populations.
Matthew J. Kesterke, 2008
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The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance ...
Family studies may show the range of related phenotypes and may indicate that disorders are familial, but they cannot demonstrate the heritability of a disorder per se. Support for the importance of genetic factors in risk for a disorder usually ...
Marc Galanter, Herbert D. Kleber, 2008
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Statistical Genetics and Plant Breeding: A Symposium and ...
W. D. HANSON Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland ' I 'HE concept of heritability originated as an attempt to describe whether -*- differences actually observed between ...
Warren Durward Hanson, Harold Frank Robinson, 1963
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Elaborating the Externalizing Spectrum Model: Family ...
Assortative mating tends to increase the similarity of DZ twins, thereby decreasing the heritability estimate when comparing the similarity of MZ to DZ twins (Plomin et al, 1997). Despite this finding, there was a significant difference in the latent ...
Brian Michael Hicks, 2007
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Intelligence
The correlation for separated MZ twins provides a direct estimate of the heritability of IQ. A reasonable estimate for this value is .70. The indirect estimate is based on the difference between MZ and DZ twins and suggests heritabilities closer to ...
Nathan Brody, 1992
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Psychology: Themes and Variations
Given the variety of methods available and the strong views that experts bring to the IQ debate, it should come as no surprise that heritability estimates for intelligence vary considerably (see Figure 9.14). At the high end, some theorists ...
Wayne Weiten, 2012
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The Gene Illusion: Genetic Research in Psychiatry and ...
Thus, even if heritability estimates were valid and useful in human populations, it is doubtful that accurate figures could be obtained from these methods. HERITABILITY AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS Although the heritability debate has ...
Jay Joseph, 2004
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Encyclopedia of Environmetrics
Loosely speaking, the heritability of a trait, usually denoted h2, is the proportion of phenotypic variation in a population caused by heritable genetic differences among individuals. More formally, heritability is the ratio of V \, the so-called ...
Abdel H. El-Shaarawi, Walter W. Piegorsch, 2001
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The Wisconsin Card Sorting Task: An Analysis of the ...
1.3 Heritability of the WCST There are only two studies, known to us, that have examined the heritability of the WCST. The first study (Campana et al., 1996) examined a very small sample of only 15 Monozygotic (MZ), 9 Dizygotic (DZ), and 15 ...
Detre Godinez, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HERITABILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heritability is used in the context of the following news items.
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Heredity - Genetic variance components and heritability of …
However, a critical evaluation requires knowledge of the heritability of heterozygosity, a quantity that is rarely estimated in this context, and ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
Genetics of disease: Associations with depression
The combination of relatively high prevalence and relatively low heritability seems to indicate that MDD does not lend itself to genetic analysis, ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
Heritability estimates of the Big Five personality traits based on …
Using genomic-relatedness-matrix residual maximum likelihood analysis (GREML), we here estimated the heritability of the Big Five ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
4
TB, Johne's disease challenging ancient diseases
... genetic variation exists to make progress in increasing resistance to Johne's disease with heritability estimates ranging from 1 to 28%. «Feedstuffs, Jul 15»
5
Artificial DNA acts just like the real thing. Does that mean we should …
... (over the last three decades or so) tend to revolve around the semantics of what 'acquired' and 'changes' mean in terms of heritability. «Genetic Literacy Project, Jul 15»
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Anxious Brains Are Inherited, Study Finds
... brains of young monkeys, anxious and not, and found three brain regions associated with anxiety that also showed evidence of heritability. «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
7
Anxious Brain? Thank Your Parents
... brains of young monkeys, anxious and not, and found three brain regions associated with anxiety that also showed evidence of heritability. «Yahoo Health, Jul 15»
8
Genetics of rapid eye movement sleep in humans
Here we report the results of a study in monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins examining the heritability of REM sleep EEG. We studied the ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
9
Predicting pubertal development by infantile and childhood height …
Despite substantial heritability in pubertal development, children differ in maturational tempo. Hypotheses: (a) Puberty and its duration are influenced by early ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
10
Genetic screening reveals a link between Wnt signaling and …
We calculated statistical power by spiking in a locus of defined narrow-sense heritability (h2) at random locations in the genome. A total of 100 ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»

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