Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies

By T. Polderman, Beben Benyamin, C. D. de Leeuw, Patrick F. Sullivan, Arjen van Bochoven, Peter M. Visscher, Danielle Posthuma. Nature Genetics, 2015

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