A commentary on 'common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height' by Yang et al. (2010).
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- Visscher, Peter M; Yang, Jian; Goddard, Michael E
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- 2010
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- Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies
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- 21142928
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- 10.1375/twin.13.6.517
Recently a paper authored by ourselves and a number of co-authors about the proportion of phenotypic variation in height that is explained by common SNPs was published in Nature Genetics (Yang et al., 2010). Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height (Yang et al.). During the refereeing process (the paper was rejected by two other journals before publication in Nature Genetics) and following the publication of Yang et al. (2010) it became clear to us that the methodology we applied, the interpretation of the results and the consequences of the findings on the genetic architecture of human height and that for other traits such as complex disease are not well understood or appreciated. Here we explain some of these issues in a style that is different from the primary publication, that is, in the form of a number of comments and questions and answers. We also report a number of additional results that show that the estimates of additive genetic variation are not driven by population structure.
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