衡量遗传力：有何意义？

Measuring heritability: Why bother?

机构信息

School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9TH,

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science & Technology, Middlesex University, London NW4 4BT, UK.

出版信息

Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Sep 13;45:e175. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21001606.

DOI:10.1017/S0140525X21001606

PMID:36098426

Abstract

Uchiyama et al. rightly consider how cultural variation may influence estimates of heritability by contributing to environmental sources of variation. We disagree, however, with the idea that estimates of heritability are ever a plausible aim. Heritability estimates are always context-specific, and to suggest otherwise is to misunderstand what heritability can and cannot tell us.

摘要

内山等人正确地考虑了文化差异如何通过对环境变异的贡献来影响遗传力的估计。然而，我们不同意遗传力估计永远是一个合理目标的观点。遗传力估计总是特定于背景的，否则就是误解了遗传力可以和不能告诉我们什么。