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Confidence Intervals For Heritability Via Haseman-Elston Regression, Tamar Sofer
Confidence Intervals For Heritability Via Haseman-Elston Regression, Tamar Sofer
UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series
Heritability is the proportion of phenotypic variance in a population that is attributable to individual genotypes. Heritability is considered an important measure in both evolutionary biology and in medicine, and is routinely estimated and reported in genetic epidemiology studies. In population-based genome-wide association studies (GWAS), mixed models are used to estimate variance components, from which a heritability estimate is obtained. The estimated heritability is the proportion of the model's total variance that is due to the genetic relatedness matrix (kinship measured from genotypes). Current practice is to use bootstrapping, which is slow, or normal asymptotic approximation to estimate the precision …