title: Heritability estimates in behavior genetics: wasn't that station passed long ago?
abstract: Charney describes several mechanisms that will bias estimates of heritability in unpredictable directions. In addition, the mechanisms described by Charney explain the puzzling fact that research in human-behavior genetics routinely reports higher heritabilities than animal studies do. However, I argue that the concept of heritability has no real place in human research anyway.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux and CNRS, F-33400 Talence, France. wim_crusio@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Wim E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Crusio
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005824:Genetics, Behavioral; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy