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Chunk #15 — 3. Methodological approaches — 3.2. Assessment of heritability and genetic covariance using the twin method

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Genetic psychophysiology: advances, problems, and future directions.
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There are a few important attributes of heritability that should be taken into account when interpreting the results of twin studies. First, heritability is a characteristic of a population and cannot be applied to an individual. Second, heritability applies to a given population at a given moment in time (although most psychophysiological traits show a good convergence of heritability estimates obtained in different populations at different times).