Heritability of Adult Body Height: A Comparative Study of Twin Cohorts in Eight Countries

By K. Silventoinen, Sampo Sammalisto, M. Perola, Dorret I. Boomsma, Belinda K. Cornes, C. Davis, L. Dunkel, Marlies de Lange, J. Harris, Jacob v. B. Hjelmborg and 10 more. Twin Research, 2003

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Many sequence variants affecting diversity of adult human height (2008, background): “Adult human height is an easily observable and highly heritable complex continuous trai”
Geographic variation and bias in polygenic scores of complex diseases and traits in Finland (2018, background): “Height PS in three independent cohorts Adult height (HG) is a highly heritable and polygenic trait (Silventoinen et al. 2003; McEvoy and Visscher 2009; Wood et al. 2014), and shows clear phenotypic differences in Finland; Western Finns are on average 1.”
No Child Left Behind: Subsidized Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes (2011, background): “For example, Silventoinen et al. (2003) report heritability estimates around 0.9 for Norwegian males born between 1967 and 1978, implying that within this population about 90% of the variance in adult height can be accounted for by the variance of genes.”
Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height (2014, neutral): “We first focused on existing pathway and gene prioritization methods: (1) MAGENTA13, a method designed to identify gene sets enriched in GWAS data, and (2) GRAIL14, which uses published literature to highlight connections between likely relevant genes within GWAS loci.”